Ethel Marie: How a Minnesota Farm Girl Helped Me to Understand Life, Love, and Human Destiny

In this book, a longtime academician recalls his life and the shaping influence of his mother, a woman of plain origins who gave him insight, by her example, into the timeless wisdom of the world’s great spiritual traditions.

This story, in part, is a memoir of Kelly Nicholson’s youth and subsequent adventures. Beneath its surface lies the enduring question of how we might acquire a sense, amid a world of competing influences, of what life means and where we are ultimately headed. Its thes...