Oatmeal is not a favorite food of two-year-olds. Mine wasn't too thrilled to see it arrive on the breakfast table this morning. He ate grudgingly, intermittent spoonfuls hitting the table and floor. I cajoled it ...

Are we allowed to say "housewife" anymore? I doubt it's ever been a flattering word — brings to mind frumpy ladies in hair curlers with ambitions no grander than getting good deals on rump roasts ...

Salma Hayek beautifully portrays the joys and anguish of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo in Frida (Miramax). The film reveals the gutsy-ness, persistence, brilliance, and pain of one of Mexico's most renowned artists. A ...

At the School of the Americas protest in Fort Benning, Georgia, on November 16th and 17th, people wore T-shirts that borrowed the words of President Bush: "All known ...

This year, to shed some light on All Souls Day (November 2), I had planned to write a beautiful, lovingly heartfelt tribute to my deceased uncle who was a Franciscan priest. If anyone deserves the ...

Can a government honestly say it's an advocate for the public's health while siding with the auto industry against electric cars quotas? It's doubtful given the ill effects of smog and pollution from gas guzzling automobiles. ...

This autumn one group of Americans has chosen their Halloween costumes and bought candy. Another group is painting skulls and looking through scrapbooks for favorite pictures of dead relatives. All Souls Day ...

My friends tell me that in their youth there was a pretty radical rivalry between Catholic school kids and public school kids in "CCD." I'll take their word for it, because Latino kids like me were ...

When I was about ten years old growing up in Havana, my friends and I made an awesome discovery. ...

In a family room filled with children and toys—dolls, blocks, puzzles and board games—was my brother Manny's big orange plastic Halloween pumpkin. Living in a Midwestern suburb in Illinois, this pumpkin's toy life was predictable and ...