| August 21st, 2007 Why young women can't get enough of Jane When Jane Austen penned her novels of love and courtship in the early 1800s, she wrote about a world that is utterly foreign to most of us. Unmarried ... |
| August 15th, 2007 Commuting with the Blessed Mother As any commuter knows, you can tell a lot about people by what they do on the subway.In the early hours of a weekday morning, heading to ... |
| August 14th, 2007 Trying to find normal again As students from all over the country begin returning to their campuses, moving into their dorms and catching up with old friends, the students at Virginia Tech have a different set of tasks. They too ... |
| August 7th, 2007 A man from a fundamentalist family, a freethinking woman— what does the future hold? Their son was dating a heathen. That's what it was, in the end: a woman set to go to Hell and take their son with her by doing ... |
| August 3rd, 2007 Memories of my brother and a Quaker girlhood The Quaker meetinghouse I attended as a child had four rooms. The large, boxy room in the middle was for worship and held rows of padded black folding ... |
| August 2nd, 2007 Our search for order in the darkness A friend of mine just left her husband. She told me that she had been unhappy in the marriage for a long time but couldn't find a way ... |
| August 1st, 2007 The former New York Times reporter and author of the new book, If They Only Listened to Us: What Women Voters Want Politicians to Hear, talks about politics, abortion, and what women say in private about our political leaders Melinda Henneberger, a former reporter for The New York Times and a former contributing editor for Newsweek magazine, spent 18 months talking to 234 women in 12 states—both "red" and "blue"—about ... |
| July 31st, 2007 Does Springfield Get Religion? In a recent print "interview" with USA Today, Homer Simpson explains his theology this way: "Every time I see my sweet girl Lisa, I believe in God. Every time ... |
| July 30th, 2007 At the base of the Taos mountains, a fragmented tree, victim of a lightning strike. As I ... |
| July 27th, 2007 The book that will make me rich and famous. Yesterday I was stalked by Jane Austen. Every corner I turned at my local bookstore, there she was—her name emblazoned across titles in the New Fiction and New Non-Fiction ... |
