The ability to laugh, we know, is vital. To do so in the midst of terror and anxiety is even more important.
Culture Watch
Shawnda Hines Eibl 5-01-2003
Be careful when you opt to wander off the beaten path; what you come across might change your direction altogether.
Molly Marsh 5-01-2003
Nine polite, well-dressed men and women walked into the Catonsville, Maryland, draft board office May 17, 1968, tussled briefly with staff members there...
Mark L. Taylor 3-01-2003
"We believe in heaven and that Tim is with God," says a Catholic woman who lost her husband in the 9-11 attacks.
Joan Chittister 3-01-2003
Struggle is a universal part of human experience, but hope—though hard to see in disappointing circumstances—is the other side of that coin.
Duane Shank 3-01-2003
The genius of American jazz is using an unexpected note or chord to add an element of surprise when the music goes where you least expect.
Rose Marie Berger 3-01-2003
Yesterday I got a call from a friend I hadn't spoken with in more than a year. "I have to tell someone this," she said.
Elizabeth Palmberg 3-01-2003
One of the many and fruitful exaggerations in Yann Martel's Life of Pi is the assertion, made by a minor character, that Pi's story will "make you believe in God."
Judy Coode 3-01-2003
It's likely that the Nazi genocide of European Jews (along with Gypsies, homosexuals, and others considered ethnically or socially deficient) is the most well-documented...
Diana Ortiz 1-01-2003
Sister Dianna Ortiz was kidnapped and tortured by Guatemalan security forces in November 1989 while serving as a missionary there.
The first time I played Waterdeep's new album for my housemates, they were up and dancing within seconds.
Bill Mallonee 1-01-2003
What are my favorite things for listening to, watching, and perusing? Well...
Ed Spivey Jr. 1-01-2003
Filmmaker Michael Moore loves to pick at the sores of America's self-delusions, and he's really good at it.