Cricket Cooper is an ordained Episcopal priest since 1989. Beginning in childhood, she experienced God's love intensely, in and outside of the traditional parameters of "church." S...ver maisCricket Cooper is an ordained Episcopal priest since 1989. Beginning in childhood, she experienced God's love intensely, in and outside of the traditional parameters of "church." Shocked by her cancer diagnosis three days before her 51st birthday, she also saw it as a gift, in that she felt well enough to plan a series of pilgrimages to holy sites of various traditions. She was hungry, in this time of personal crisis, to open herself up to experience God/the Sacred in fresh ways from different viewpoints and traditions and to discover how they might lead a pilgrim to healing and acceptance. She resolved to focus on the blessings and gifts, not the fear and anxiety. Cricket has a degree in Creative Writing from Northwestern University and has been published by Forward Movement and Bride's magazine. She lives in Dalton, Massachusetts.ver menos