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Caroline Langston

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January 2014

January 17, 2014

Rose By Any Other Name

This is a story that is more about what I don’t know than what I...

November 2013

November 26, 2013

The Lost Girl Lets Go

There’s something about the midday nature of the appointment that gives it a furtive cast:...

October 2013

October 28, 2013

My Brother John: A Eulogy for the Living

For some months now, I have been ruminating on the writer John Podhoretz’s eulogy in...

September 2013

September 25, 2013

All I Needed to Know I Learned from the Phonebook

Sing in me, O Muse: That like Navin R. Johnson—the “I was born a poor...

August 2013

August 27, 2013

I Hate Summer

We are on the lip of September. August has passed rapidly once again, predictably, dying...

August 09, 2013

The Bible as Icon

For Vic Sizemore With six children in a Southern Baptist family in the 1970s, we...

July 2013

July 22, 2013

Saint Linda

Just about every morning for the eight-plus years we’ve lived in our house, the day...

June 2013

June 28, 2013

Remembering Deacon Patenotte

On Wednesday, June 12, 2013, at more or less the same time that I was...

June 05, 2013

Cathedrals of Consumption

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

May 2013

May 17, 2013

The Glass Coffin

For Hella Winston “To be full of things is to be empty of God. To...

April 2013

April 24, 2013

Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

Well, somebody at Good Letters had to do it: Somebody had to go buy the...

April 03, 2013

The Seed in the Grave

When the creamy, letter-press-printed wedding invitation arrived on a wintry February day, it seemed an...

March 2013

March 13, 2013

Little Houses

For Peter and Jackie Cooley, who live in one. “So what do you know about...

February 2013

February 26, 2013

We Are All Immigrants

Several years ago I had the humbling honor of sharing my journey as a convert...

February 04, 2013

Amateur Mentors

For Katherine Diop Plod on, you Angels say, do better aspire higher And one day...

January 2013

January 06, 2013

The Anniversary of My Father’s Death

“After the first exile, there is no other.” —Rosellen Brown, The Autobiography of My Mother,...

December 2012

December 07, 2012

The Eclipse of the Airport Chapel

The San Francisco International Airport has a yoga room, but no chapel. At least that’s...

November 2012

November 07, 2012

Do-It-Yourself Sacramental Tedium

Last Tuesday, after it became clear that Superstorm Sandy was going to bypass Washington, D.C.,...

October 2012

October 17, 2012

Don’t Cry for Me, Bethesda

Awhile back, a well-meaning (and very successful) friend said to me, “I just wish we...

September 2012

September 25, 2012

Raising Sons and Raising Men

This past Saturday, on a brilliant fall morning, my eight-year-old son came bounding downstairs for...

August 2012

August 29, 2012

In Defense of Fine China

Twelve years ago, during the short months of our engagement before my husband and I...

August 10, 2012

The Final Chapter in a Promising Young Life

I was driving when it occurred to me that it has been twenty years since...

July 2012

July 23, 2012

Depression, Gift, and Legacy

For Johnny, of course My mother has been dead a year now, and it has...

June 2012

June 29, 2012

Baseball and the Law of God

Last Friday night, a freak microburst descended on our neighborhood with eighty mile an hour...

June 05, 2012

Weddings, Women, Sweets, and Wishes

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