The case for silence
Brian Williams took time from his nightly newscast earlier this month to announce that comedian Russell Brand had filed for divorce from singer Katy Perry, ending a marriage that had barely cleared the one-year mark. The news was part of a ping-pong pop-culture recap that ended with Williams describing the latest YouTube sensation: a golden [...]
Resolve to write in the new year
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Benjamin Franklin was 27 when he dipped his pen in red ink, drew a seven-column, 13-row chart and resolved to master all the moral virtues. It was Sunday and the first day of July. The last of the 13 British colonies to be founded, Georgia, was being settled, and each colony was working out its [...]
Imagining Mary
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
I’ve been shopping for the perfect Christmas card, sifting through Nativity scenes framed in holly berries and bows. None of the Marys feel right. The lips are taut. The face, unblemished. We see none of the bliss and bewilderment that must have surged after birthing the son of God. We see no emotion at all [...]
PODCAST- Toss or save a Catholic take on spring cleaning
Thu, Apr 15, 2010
Author’s cut of the April column Twenty Something.
PODCAST: Eventual Motherhood – March 2010
Thu, Mar 4, 2010
Podcast for the March 2010 Twenty Something column Eventual Motherhood.
Podcast: Heeding Heidi – February 2010
Fri, Feb 26, 2010
Podcast for the February 2010 article Heeding Heidi.
Baltimore, MD
Fri, Feb 26, 2010
Postcard from my Baltimore trip to visit the Oblates.
Celebrating a century, marking a moment
Mon, Feb 8, 2010
“I found my lost sheep,” the letter began. I recognized the curly cursive and oversized periods. The return address label was classic Joe Pexa — a remnant of a bygone era: a Norman Rockwell image of a boy, a girl, a dog and a white-picket fence. It was written last June to invite me to [...]
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