The story of my journalism career is here in the stories of strangers. It’s what I made of their accounts, what happened between the handwritten interview notes and the published newspaper articles.More
I was cleaning the kitchen, the TV on in the background, the faces of glitz and glam celebrities flashing across the screen, the sounds of applause filling the room as the Golden Globes played.More
In the lead-up to New Year’s, I was working on what I saw as a pretty impressive list. And it was getting more grandiose the more I thought that this should be a list worthy of a new decade. Then it was all turned upside down by a certain Cistercian monk at Holy Cross Abbey in Berryville, Father James Orthmann. More
What do you want this year to look like? Prayerfully, what does God call you to create this year? How will you grow into your vocation in the next 12 months? Don’t google a list. Don’t create a list of what you think someone wants from you. Don’t work up a list that you think someone you admire would create. Make your list. This is your life. You were created for a unique purpose. Spend some time discerning what that purpose is. More
As we trudge into 2020, a year that promises to be just as rancorous politically as the year we are ending, I find myself thinking about forgiveness.More
As thousands of pro-life demonstrators fill the streets of downtown Washington Jan. 24 for the annual March for Life, optimism and uncertainty will both be present in abundance. More
In one of his Christmas sermons, St. John Henry Newman speaks of Christmas as “a time for innocence and purity and gentleness and mildness and contentment and peace.” More
While I can rattle off a long list of positive things about being raised in the Northeast (the quality of bagels, access to cultural events in big cities and proximity to the ocean top the list), an honest assessment would include some downsides. The most glaringly obvious one is that for most of my life I've been conditioned to be completely and totally impatient.More