Donna Schaper | The Sun Magazine

Donna Schaper

Donna Schaper thinks of herself as a “Christian socialist feminist who has a bit of a right-wing streak.” A parish pastor in Riverhead, New York, she’s the author of Superwoman Turns Forty and Stripping Down: The Art of Spiritual Restoration, which uses the metaphor of refinishing a chair as a spiritual art.

— From August 1992
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Fool’s Gold

Why should someone like me worry about the recession as much as I do? I didn’t have any money before it, and I won’t have any money after it. The housing it is now killing me to buy will cost less the next time I have to buy. I have more to gain than to lose.

August 1992
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