"Are You Happy?"

...what did he say?

Here at the hermitage near Sligo, Ireland, I am residing with two hermit-nuns from Chicago, a hermit-monk from Tennessee, an in-resident priest from Toronto, a work-retreatant priest from Columbia, a theater manager from the Czech Republic, and Martin - the Irish handyman.

Mondays and Tuesdays are “Solitude/Desert” days, and we are not to speak to the m…