Essays
- “Teaching My Children, and Myself, That We Can’t Always Have Things Our Way” (The Washington Post, May 4, 2018)
- “Swipe Up the Stars” (Notre Dame Magazine, Spring 2018)
- “Border Walking” (CatholicDigest.com, February 27, 2018)
- “Naming God in All Things” (America Magazine, February 20, 2018)
- “To Teach a Child to Love” (CatholicDigest.com, February 6, 2018)
- “Turn to Him” (The Sunlight Press, October 9, 2017)
- “The Man on the Train” (CatholicDigest.com, September 18, 2017)
- “The Safety of Ashes” (Sojourners.com, March 10, 2017)
- “A Restless Heart” (America Magazine, March 21, 2016)
- “The sunshine and shadows of motherhood” (US Catholic, October 2015)
- “More than enough” (Catholic Digest, September 2013)
- “Third Trimester Malaise” (BrainChildMag.com, April 2013)
- “Their faces open with joy” (Notre Dame Magazine, Autumn 2012)
- “I will follow him” (US Catholic, April 2012)
Blogs
- January 2012: blog, “A teacher of wisdom and faith: Sister Rosalyn O’Malley”
- January 2012: blog, “Resolutions rooted in prayer”
- November 2011: blog, “St. Joseph, the foster parent”
Poetry
- “Normalize” (Literary Mama, May 2014)
- “Lake Silverthorn” (Hospital Drive, June 2013)
Nonfiction
- “Words to Live By” (University of Chicago Magazine, January/February 2014)
- “Her Children’s Keeper” (University of Chicago Magazine, September/October 2013)
- “I’ll Do It My Way” (Notre Dame Business Magazine, Fall/Winter 2009)
- “Crossing old borders” (Notre Dame Magazine, Autumn 2008)
- “Doing Drugs” (Notre Dame Magazine, Summer 2008)
Emily Dagostino 
Emily,
I enjoyed reading your Restless Heart piece in America and it resonated with much of my own experience. On a recent silent retreat, I was reading through the “Second Week” prayers of a Jesuit guide to Ignatian Spiritual Exercises (Hearts on Fire), and came across a prayer from Teilhard de Chardin entitled “Patient Trust” that touched me quite deeply, especially in my own restlessness. It also made me think of your article, so I thought I would pass along a link to the prayer: http://www.ignatianspirituality.com/8078/prayer-of-theilhard-de-chardin.
My spiritual director on the retreat suggested that I personalize the prayer. The first line, for example, thus became: “ABOVE ALL, I trust in the slow work of God.”
Teilhard’s prayer concludes: “…accept the anxiety of feeling yourself
in suspense and incomplete.”
Perhaps others who recognize the unsettled experiences you describe may want to take a look at the prayer.
With all good wishes,
Mike