title: Seasons of Love: A Journey of Faith, Family, and Community
author: Eleanor S. Sampeck
description: Eleanor Sullo is a prolific author and a graduate pastoral minister and spiritual director who conducts retreats and workshops, worked in religious education and adult faith formation with the Catholic Diocese of Norwich, Connecticut, and in several area parishes. She is also a columnist for The American Catholic, in the Hartford, Connecticut area where her food-and-spirituality column, "Soul Seasonings" has appeared monthly for four years. Her prize-winning short fiction has appeared in Thema, The Belletrist Review, The American Catholic, True Experience, Vermont Ink and The Palo Alto Review, which nominated her short story, "Fortunato on Bread," for a U. S. Pushcart Prize for Short Fiction in 1997. She is currently completing her third romance-women's fiction novel, A Year in Poughkeepsie, to be released in September, 2003 and preparing a cookbook made up from 25 years of challenging communal living and nine years of food columns.
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  Praise for the Christiansen Family Series
  
  
  _It Had to Be You_
  
  
  “ _It Had to Be You_ is a sigh-worthy, coming-into-her-own romance
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  SERENA CHASE, _USA Today_
  
  
  “This character-driven tale with a beautiful love story . . . gives excellent
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  _ROMANTIC TIMES_
  
  
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