Take, Lord, receive . . . my memory. —Ignatius of Loyola As kids—up to seven of us sharing two bedrooms—we were each Mother-apportioned one cardboard carton in...
Family
On June 24, 2023, at 9:17 p.m., my internal schema of people most dear to me rearranged itself to make room for our family’s newest member: an impossibly sweet...
When we recently named our baby boy “Jude,” I swore to myself I wouldn’t be singing the Beatles’ top-selling single to him around the clock. It just seemed, I...
South Korea reached a record low in fertility in June, falling to a rate of just 0.70, a sharp drop from the already dismal 0.78 recorded in 2022. That puts...
Second grade was the year I fell in love with going to school. After being afraid of my kindergarten teacher and subsequently being in her class again as she...
In my years since becoming a parent, I’ve heard myself, not infrequently, repeating the aphorisms and one-liners that formed the soundtrack of my childhood...
The siren call of doting grandparents and a much more affordable cost of living lured my husband and me to migrate from Providence, Rhode Island, where he was...
My mother didn’t want to homeschool us, but my father insisted. When she resisted, he manipulated her into continuing. I pondered this while I read an article...
It crossed my mind recently that what I really need to be the parent I want to be is a personality transplant. When I think of the parents I most admire, in...
One of cinema’s most thoughtful and challenging filmmakers, Robert Bresson, once acknowledged that when he simply wanted some entertainment, he would watch a...
