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June 2015

June 10, 2015

The Eucharist: Eat, Eat!

By Shannon Huffman Polson We sit in the back pew at church with intention; there’s...

June 02, 2015

The Beautiful Attitudes

By Dyana Herron I clearly remember the last day of being nine. I stood in...

May 2015

May 22, 2015

The Two Lists

Seven-year old Isaiah found a small desk in the back of our garage and claimed...

May 21, 2015

While My Pen Gently Weeps

My daughter Gracie was helping me prepare dinner one evening. We were doing the bœuf...

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...

May 06, 2015

My Rainbow Connection, Disconnected

By Chad Thomas Johnston It was a Saturday night and my wife, Becki, wanted to...

May 05, 2015

When We Die

A text from a friend: “What do you believe happens when we die?” She’d recently...

May 04, 2015

Las Madres: Art and Death in the Arizona Desert

"The artist is a beggar because she is empty, waiting to be filled. But the...

April 2015

April 22, 2015

For the Love of Money

My husband and I took a spring break trip to the central coast of California,...

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...

April 16, 2015

Make It Old: A Wedding Anniversary Epithalamion

In the beginning was a wedding. The ceremony began with light. The ceremony included the...

April 15, 2015

Writing This Post Was on My Bucket List

I’ve never left North America, seen the Statue of Liberty, or dipped a toe in...

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,...

February 05, 2015

Cutting the Cord: An Observation from The Way of Saint James, Part 2

Continued from yesterday. The Way of Saint James—El Camino de Santiago—is a pilgrimage that began...

February 04, 2015

Cutting the Cord: An Observation from The Way of Saint James, Part 1

Sean was not an easy child to raise. My husband and I became his parents...

February 03, 2015

The Power of Twelve

You won’t want to do it, but I’ll ask just the same: imagine being twelve...

January 2015

January 29, 2015

The Sublime and Beautiful

From antiquity to the Enlightenment, one of the great aesthetic dichotomies involved the sublime and...

January 21, 2015

Childhood Cinema Redux

Over our recent winter break, my husband and I introduced our two older kids to...

December 2014

December 17, 2014

In Defense of Fruitcake

At some point or another, every Christmas celebrant in America has to draw lines in...

November 2014

November 19, 2014

Trouble Called Again Last Night

Trouble called again last Thursday night. The number illuminated in the landline phone's small window....

October 2014

October 27, 2014

Riding the Waves

My sons argue over Avengers characters. The littlest insists he’s Captain America. Another claims Hawkeye....

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 11, 2014

How to End an Era

We're supposed to shake our heads when Daisy Buchanan, considering a summer solstice celebration on...

September 10, 2014

Songs Dead Men Sing

Guest Post by Cathy Warner In the backseat of our minivan I swig an individual...

September 04, 2014

All Unhappy Families Are Alike

In commenting on my latest essay for “Good Letters,” a man “disabled from an odd...

August 2014

August 25, 2014

We Who Are Left Behind

“Why’d you let go?” Conrad Jarrett shouts at the ceiling, in a climactic scene in...

August 18, 2014

Rules for Celebrating: An Observation from the Way of Saint James, Part 2

Continued from last week. The Way of Saint James—El Camino de Santiago—is a pilgrimage across...

August 14, 2014

Rules for Celebrating: An Observation from the Way of Saint James, Part 1

My son graduated from college this past June. It took him seven years, due to...

August 12, 2014

Escape from the Holy Land, Part 2

By Bradford Winters Continued from yesterday. Soon after landing at JFK from Tel Aviv Friday...