Ah, the end of the year and the beginning of a new one!
It’s the perfect time to sit back, not relax at all, bemoan all the things you didn’t accomplish in 2010 and craft a completely unreasonable list of resolutions for 2011.
I will be a better person! I will eat perfectly and work out every...
“When you leave a place … Let go”
Driving back from Wooster, Ohio I was distressed and so out of sorts I couldn’t enjoy the ride or the time alone with my husband, Marc. I’m exhausted from all the demands of Christmas and expectations that surround family during the holidays.
I’m the...
I had the honor of visiting Bethlehem in September this year, with a group of Catholic American journalists. We were touring the Holy Land on a fact-finding mission, so that we could report accurately during the coming year, as the Holy Land is in the news.
You can see my daily reports on this web site; you...
My daughter turns 16 today. I watch small children at church, play with our younger nieces and nephews, and wonder where my little girl has gone. I know it’s her job to grow up and become increasingly independent, I’m enjoying the young woman she’s becoming, and I pray daily that her father and I have...
The words bishop and humor don’t often go together for many of us, but people are people! Our bishops are actually a pretty lively bunch—if you understand their culture. SAM editor Susan Hines-Brigger and I were in Baltimore, back in November, covering the annual assembly of the United States...
