I wrote this reflection on the July 17 Mass readings for Give Us This Day back when the war in Gaza began last fall. The war still rages,...

Somewhere along the way pallbearers became pallaccompaniers or pallwatchers as the funeral home staff took over the custody of the body....

I wrote this one summer when Leo was very small. He's a teenager now. In all these changes, this remains constant: my reaction to his...

Not two years after our oldest grandson was born he had a new sister.  I was taking care of them shortly after her arrival and I was able...