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Caroline Langston

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October 2018

October 17, 2018

Waiting for Nothing to Happen

When I was in my twenties, toward the end of a not-especially-dissolute but nonetheless untethered...

August 2018

August 30, 2018

Cathedrals of Consumption

Many years ago now, not long after I had been received into the Orthodox Church,...

July 2018

July 19, 2018

I Hate Summer

For the past several days—until today, alas—we’ve been having a spell of entirely uncharacteristic weather...

June 2018

June 19, 2018

I Feel Bad About My Neck

I feel bad about my neck. Those are not my words; they’re the title of...

December 2017

December 27, 2017

Martha Stewart: Entertaining for Millions

Quick: before 2017 ends, I want to mark an anniversary that has somehow been missed...

November 2017

November 14, 2017

Remembering Father George

My priest has died. Or rather, in Eastern Orthodox terminology, he has reposed. He has...

October 2017

October 02, 2017

Bridal Veils and Blessing

In the back of the closet right, where I’d stowed it years before, I found...

September 2017

September 11, 2017

Remembering 9/11 in Washington D.C.

Sixteen years later, 9/11 seems so distant that it is merely a touchstone for rhetoric....

August 2017

August 16, 2017

Entering the Age of Subtraction

I am entering the Age of Subtraction. Almost as if there existed an imperceptible fulcrum...

July 2017

July 13, 2017

The Beautiful Boy

It’s barely even summer and already, in our house it is the Summer of the...

May 2017

May 30, 2017

Preaching the End of the World

For my husband, Brian Jarboe I learned the news that guitarist Chris Cornell’s death had...

May 03, 2017

Pascha, the Resurrection, and Ricky Gervais

Rays of midmorning sun shone through the window and fell in molten pools across the...

March 2017

March 30, 2017

Share If You Agree

I have had it with the rage. It might drive me off social media. At...

February 2017

February 14, 2017

Weddings, Women, Sweets, and Wishes

My heirloom cookbook was born during a Washington D.C. snowstorm in February of what was...

February 09, 2017

Ready to Run

Midway along the journey of our life I woke to find myself in a dark...

January 2017

January 16, 2017

Martin, Everett, and Me

I am writing this essay on the fortieth anniversary of my father’s death, so my...

December 2016

December 19, 2016

I Miss Gwen Ifill

For Kate Keplinger It is the blight man was born for It is Margaret that...

October 2016

October 31, 2016

The Resurrection Volvo

Just about nine months ago—the Tuesday after Valentine’s Day, to be exact—I hit a carload...

October 04, 2016

Thank You, Black Southern Belles

In the twenty-plus years since the Internet became a feature of our lives, there have...

September 2016

September 13, 2016

My September 11 Story, and Ours, Part II

For Scott Simon, and for Bill Craven Continued from yesterday. In the back of my...

September 12, 2016

My September 11, and Ours: Part I

For Scott Simon, and for Bill Craven Yesterday was the fifteenth anniversary of September 11,...

August 2016

August 16, 2016

The Neglected Garden, Part II

Continued from yesterday. The dollhouse my father was building for me was still unfinished when...

August 15, 2016

The Neglected Garden, Part I

When my father built the house where I was born, the land was flat and...

July 2016

July 28, 2016

Against “Amazing Grace”

In a world in which it seems that just about everything seems to be complained...

June 2016

June 22, 2016

Psychotherapy, A Love Story

For Jessica Mesman Griffith A creature that hides and “withdraws into its shell,” is preparing...

May 2016

May 16, 2016

Fun with Circumcision

Every year, when a specific national obstetrics and gynecology conference (or is it pediatrics?) comes...

April 2016

April 11, 2016

A Strange Season for Inter-Christian Families

American culture, at this late and plural hour, seems to have pretty well normalized the...

March 2016

March 07, 2016

The Abandoned, Broken, and Burned

By the time you read this, inshallah, we will have the new dishwasher purchased and...

February 2016

February 04, 2016

Kolam: The Beauty of Uselessness

This one’s for Carin Ruff, and by way of answering my niece Kate’s question. A...

December 2015

December 17, 2015

For the Love of Hank Stuever, Part 2

Continued from yesterday. Hank Stuever’s 2005 collection of essays Off Ramp: Adventures and Heartache in...