text: I really appreciated this article on Dorothy Day & her book: The Long Loneliness. I, too, have been challenged by this remarkable, devoted Christian. I went to a book club review of the book & it was traumatic for me as the people there reduced the book to tiny incidents & "I liked/didn't like this book". Most did not even finish the book! There seemed to be no real understanding of this extraordinary book or of Dorothy Day. 
  Julie Hanson Rubio has crystallized Dorothy Day, voluntary poverty, being a Christian today, the Church, the Catholic Worker movement, even literature. This is a continuing self-examination of the Christian life in her life, in Dorothy Day's life, & in my own. The book is complex as is Dorothy Day. I believe Dorothy Day is a saint. I find Rubio's blog to be my story as well. Though I'll never be a Dorothy Day, she is my hero & challenges me continually in my attempts to live the true Christian life. Thank you, Julie Hanson Rubio.