In the picture her mom sent, my 5-year-old granddaughter is staring wide-eyed at the praying mantis she has just discovered on the back of her chair at breakfast. Alice loves bugs. She has a box full of dead bees and cicadas she has found in her yard. In my humble opinion, a live cicada is […]
New York firefighters and rescue workers are seen Sept. 11, 2001, carrying Franciscan Father Mychal Judge, a chaplain with the New York Fire Department, who died while giving last rites to a firefighter following terrorist attacks that would soon bring down the twin towers of the World Trade Center. Twenty-five years after the 9/11 terrorism […]
Elizabeth Scalia “Bad times, hard times, … We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times” (Sermon 30, St Augustine). In my youth I knew a mother who played cruel “jokes” on babies. With a little one seated on her lap, she would temptingly show a biscuit or a candy, and — […]
Greg Erlandson I wonder if you can tell the age of a person by the number of dead people’s phone numbers he still has saved on his phone? It could be like judging the age of a tree by the rings on its core. A young person may have only a few. I feel like […]