Recently I took a trip I approached with both anticipation and dread . The marrying kind "We're getting married," my friend Kay had said when I picked up the phone. ...

I'm an optimist. I can find a positive spin in any situation. I'll admit, though, my gift of optimism failed me last year on Tuesday, September 10, a day ...

Shanksville, PA, Sept. 7, 2003—About ten miles off the Pennsylvania Turnpike (about 80 miles before you get to Pittsburgh), Shanksville is small town America incarnate. It must be the mostly unlikely place imaginable for the ...

They say you can't go home again. In my case, its usually because someone has changed the locks on the door—so that I, literally, can't go ...

The power actually browned out—gradually—in our section of midtown Manhattan on August 14 at 4:10 p.m. But before ten full minutes had elapsed, everything was completely gone. Like for most ...

Ash Wednesday, 1932 An art student stands on the avenue in New York City in 1932, looking up at the Empire State Building, recently completed. Most people from around the ...

By all accounts, Gay Pride Week in Toronto was different this year. Normally, the festivities draw thousands of tourists to the capital of Ontario and the annual parade?that took place on Sunday June 29?can attract ...

My friend Smita (name changed) refuses to write brochures and marketing material for companies because she feels uncomfortable "bending the truth." It's common knowledge that brochures sometimes misrepresent product features, but she won't write brochures at ...

This summer seeping through the quagmire of continuous news coverage of disappearing weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and the latest J.Lo and Ben antics was news on the ...

Nearly six years to the day that I received my first theology degree, I was back in Boston at an ordination (see box below). I was at the Episcopal cathedral, not the Catholic one. Jen, a ...