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December 2015

December 16, 2015

For the Love of Hank Stuever, Part 1

It’s been a rotten day. The Fed Ex package didn’t arrive; a typo slipped through...

November 2015

November 09, 2015

The Curse of a Good Memory

First of all, it makes everyone hate you at parties. We all know that it’s...

October 2015

October 23, 2015

Hamster Hospice: Caring for God’s Tiny Creatures

For my son, Alex In the final months before our hamster died, I would lie...

September 2015

September 08, 2015

Blood and Silver

By Caroline Langston I stood in the security line at the Louis Armstrong International Airport...

August 2015

August 18, 2015

In Defense of Air Conditioning

The summer after my freshman year in college, I made the mistake of signing a...

July 2015

July 20, 2015

God Has Got to Be Real

God became man, so that man might become God. —St. Athanasius What you find-ah

June 2015

June 29, 2015

Learning to Pray

Go, sit in your cell, and your cell will teach you everything. —Abba Moses The...

June 12, 2015

Sunday Morning at Wegmans, Prince George’s County, Maryland

It is the Feast of Pentecost on the Eastern Orthodox calendar, the annual commemoration of...

May 2015

May 15, 2015

Go Ahead and Have the Damn Children!

I was working from home a few days ago, on a day when both of...

April 2015

April 20, 2015

My Mother, My Daughter, Myself

My daughter Anna Maria was born on Orthodox Easter Sunday—Pascha—six years ago. That year, the...

March 2015

March 24, 2015

Resisting My Inner Columba Bush

Poor Columba Bush: On top of the doubtlessly-endless-hassle it must be to have your husband...

February 2015

February 27, 2015

Mama and The Help

In memory of my mother “How come we don’t have a maid?” I asked my...

February 12, 2015

The Collision

All I saw of the deer at first was the eye: domed, amber and pellucid,...

January 2015

January 15, 2015

Breaking Up with My Job

Last week, I left the job where I have worked for the past seven-and-three-quarter years....

December 2014

December 22, 2014

In Memoriam

If you live long enough in a place, people will start to die there, but...

November 2014

November 28, 2014

Elsa Blue and Frozen Power

For Chad Thomas Johnston Along with Kermit green, Barbie pink and—Lord have mercy—SpongeBob yellow, we...

November 14, 2014

Apocatastasis at the Essex

“You have to choose the places you don’t walk away from.” —Joan Didion This one’s...

October 2014

October 16, 2014

Holding the Blade of Sacrifice

I had fallen asleep thinking about the Sacrifice of Isaac: The account, given in Genesis,...

September 2014

September 26, 2014

Living My Family’s Legacy

The sins of the fathers may indeed be visited upon the children, and upon the...

September 05, 2014

An American Girl’s Tale

Dave Ramsey, the millionaire evangelical Christian money coach who’s famous for telling his clients they...

August 2014

August 15, 2014

Our Mother Mary

Today is the Feast of the Dormition (the “falling asleep”) of the Mother of God....

July 2014

July 28, 2014

Everyone Deserves Clean Grout and Starched Linen

For my junior high school Home Economics teacher, Mrs. Lesca Black, who taught me how...

July 10, 2014

Moving to Stillness

Last Thursday morning I got up, made my son’s lunch, made sure that both children...

June 2014

June 23, 2014

Snapshots from the Imperial City

1. My children attend a school that sits in rented space in the middle of...

May 2014

May 27, 2014

Mystery and (Southern) Manners

It’s a chicken-and-egg kind of question I get all the time, but I don’t think...

May 01, 2014

The Passion of Relisha Rudd

The first ominous sign that the Relisha Rudd case was slipping from the local Washington,...

April 2014

April 08, 2014

The Grace of the Unexpected, Part 2

In the first part of my post yesterday, I lamented our contemporary lack of risk,...

April 07, 2014

The Grace of the Unexpected, Part 1

Listen up, brothers and sisters—what follows here is the only sermon I know how to...

March 2014

March 06, 2014

The Feast Days of Snowfall

Dedicated to Amy Chevalier Efantis Aside from any private celebrations hosted by the Tulane alumni...

February 2014

February 18, 2014

The Beltway Catechesis

Now that our son is almost ten, he has begun to feel his oats a...