Baby Books, Locks of Hair and Yardsticks
Sometimes I thought it was because I was adopted, and I’d heard my parents had waited nine long years to get a baby of their own. Other...
According to the Father Superior
Every time I hear “Sweet Caroline,” I think about my dad’s dogged, fan-boy assertion that Neil Diamond is hands-down the most...
Silence
“Sin, he reflected, is not what it is usually thought to be; it is not to steal and tell lies. Sin is for one man to walk brutally over...
Bargains, Buzz and Bona Fides
I love the scene in O Brother, Where Art Thou? when George Clooney’s character Everett is trying to talk his kids into accepting him back...