You want to hear something great? I’m invincible. I’m hardly sick, I rarely get injured, I ride my bike somewhat recklessly along city...

It’s no secret that I’m a lover of books. But I’m also a lover of running and biking and swimming, and writing, and hosting dinner...

I spend a lot of time on sidewalks. I walk to and from Mass every morning, to my car that may well be parked many blocks away, to the...

I’d never been to the funeral of a perfect stranger before. Nor had I cried so bitterly over the loss of someone I’d never met and never...

Now, I’m sure it’s just a phase, but I think I’m obsessed. It all started with a perfectly innocuous exhibit at the National Gallery of...

Remember summer reading? I don’t think I ever enjoyed it. And I’ve always loved reading. Growing up without a TV in my house was helpful....

I don’t think I’ve ever before been so sorrowful at the end of summer. Isn’t summer marvelous? It’s the best. Long days, warm nights,...

My heart has been aching. Has your heart been aching? We live in a troubling world, a tenuous time. We see hatred and violence bred from...

I have insomnia. It’s sporadic and self-diagnosed and (please, please, Lord) temporary. Sometimes it means I can’t fall asleep until 3....

Lord, make me a sailboat. It’s a prayer that I prayed at the end of the dock one early morning at the lake. For days I’d watched...