When Oliver Cromwell in 1764 was about to have his portrait painted, he coined the famous expression: “Paint me, warts and all!” Do we really know for sure that the…
During Pope Hat Night at Rate Field (White Sox Park) on Tuesday, August 11th, the Chicago White Sox distributed 40,000 custom papal miters adorned with the team’s logo to honor Pope Leo XIV, a…
I make fifty-five thousand dollars a year. On paper, that sounds grown up. Respectable. The kind of number your high school guidance counselor would nod at and say, “See, you’ll…
A stranger stopped me in the Walmart parking lot last Tuesday and I have not stopped crying since. I was having one of those days. You know the kind. The…
In 1974, a twenty-three-year-old man named Dan Jury made a decision that went against everything expected of someone his age. He took his eighty-one-year-old grandfather, Frank Tugend, out of a…
Our 14-year-old dog Abbey died last month. The day after she passed away my 4-year-old daughter Meredith was crying and talking about how much she missed Abbey. She asked if…
The man in the three-thousand-dollar suit glanced at my hands before he even looked at my face. “Maintenance is down the hall,” he said politely. “Air conditioning issue?” I knew…
There is probably no miracle in the Bible that has been so doubted than the story of Jesus walking on the water, as happened in today’s Gospel (Matt 14:22-33). The…
The man I have shared a bed with for forty-six years asked me to leave his house this morning. He stood in the living room, gripping a throw pillow to…
The nurse glanced at her watch and then at me, her tone sharp and unyielding. “I’m sorry, but the rules are clear. If your designated driver isn’t here to sign…
