When my daughters were little, we stayed away from Barbie dolls. They were too sexualized for my taste. The girls grew up with lots of...

Not long ago, I spent a weekend with my son and daughter-in-law in Concord, Massachusetts. We visited Walden Pond, a national historical...

The Bustle in a House The bustle in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth – The sweeping up the...

When I was a young girl there was an old upright piano in our garage. Only the top third of the keys worked, but I took to that piano...

I’m told that an identity crisis isn’t a diagnosable condition (except for dissociative identity disorder), so there aren’t any typical...

Let’s face facts. We Catholics have never been truly faithful to Jesus. In the end, none of us have followed those teachings that most...