I don’t have pictures of myself sitting terrified on Santa’s lap. Despite his slow but certain infiltration into the traditional Spanish Christmas...
Family
My aunt Teresa was a collector and creator of religious artwork. Like many women of her generation, religion defined life down to her taste in decorating...
The Christmas my daughter was 6 and my son was 3 was probably the low point. Not that it lacked anything, you understand. Quite the contrary. There were...
When I bought her the valentine, she smiled, but I knew the card was more for me than her. She didn't really know what it said. I read the...
Tami Hollendonner remembers the extent of her sex education as a Catholic teen in the 1970s. “My mom and dad never told me about the birds and the bees...
The halls of Riuniti Hospital in Reggio Calabria were bustling that summer day with white-coated doctors and orderlies. The P.A. system blared as southern...
Bette Hausman and Don Storck are in love and want to spend the rest of their lives together. If only it were as easy as scheduling the priest and ordering the...
When the news about our recently named Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's Jewish roots exploded in early February, I scurried to my book of quotes to...
Imagine being a supporter of the Vietnam antiwar movement and the son of a lieutenant general who is the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Imagine...
This article is adapted from Thomas Lynch’s essay collections, The Undertaking (W.W. Norton and Co., 1997) and Bodies in Motion and at Rest (W.W. Norton...
