A High-Stakes Game
NOTHING MAKES YOU MORE AWARE of your own social privilege than being a White woman raising a Black teenage son. As such, I’ve learned a thing or two about the way the world works. It’s a high-stakes game; one with ...
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Faith and Family for December 6: Second Sunday of Advent
At the start of the second week of Advent, we hear from the Gospel of Mark about John the Baptist's foretelling of the coming of Christ and his baptisms of people in the Jordan river.
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Rebuild My Church
“You have to go to Mass to hear Father Ben’s homily.” That was the message I got in text after text on a Saturday night a few months ago. Just days before, I had shared on my Facebook page the ...
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Marriage Moment: The Peanut Butter War
When Mark and I first got married, we went through all the required Pre-Cana classes and even decided to go for the full Engaged Encounter weekend as opposed to the abbreviated one-day class. Come our wedding day, we thought we ...
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A New Take on ‘Silent Night’
I often find myself rolling my eyes a bit whenever I hear the Christmas song “Silent Night” during this time of year. You see, silent nights have been very few and far between in our house for the past 21 ...
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Faith and Family for November 29: First Sunday of Advent
This week we begin our journey into the season of Advent. In the Gospel, Jesus tells the disciples to be alert for they know not when the Lord will come.
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A Tale of Chronic Anxiety
I have been writing this column for 19 years, and I have covered a lot of topics and chronicled many of the aspects of my and my family’s lives. But one topic I have not addressed head-on—or at least as ...
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