I'm a high school English teacher. When I share this with others, they usually respond with some variation of the following: "Wow. That takes courage." It's an accurate observation, but ...

A few years ago my mother said, "Today is Good Friday. Why don't come to church with me tonight?" Oh no, I thought. Not the church talk again. "Mother," I explained for the hundredth ...

As my husband Scott and I packed up our apartment to move, I came across a box of my old diaries. I could barely lift it. It held twenty-seven ...

There I was, flying 13,000 feet in the air without an airplane. I was plummeting 120 miles per hour toward the earth, with my arms and legs outstretched. I was ...

"Ok, now make a right at Lenape in .6 miles" I said, squinting at the passing street signs as if by brute concentration I could make the next sign ...

I'd been cleaning for weeks. It started the week before Thanksgiving; I had nine coming for Thanksgiving dinner and was damned if I didn't have a clean and organized ...

All marriage as moral danger? "Nothing is so powerful in drawing the spirit of a man downwards as the caresses of a woman," St. Augustine ...

With the much hyped anticipated opening of Mel Gibson's movie The Passion of the Christ on the first day of Lent 2004, Christians ...

Many people have a hard time with winter. Up North where I come from the days are short and gloomy. The cold is bitter and winter is long. The holidays, cloaked in joy and celebration ...

Mrs. America Attractive, hospitable, gracious—eager volunteers. This is the traditional image of the First Lady of the United States. Since there is no official job description for the wife ...