A couple weeks ago, fellow Twelver Jeff Munroe confessed his fondness for Downton Abbey, the gorgeous, Brit-made, upstairs-downstairs soap opera that American viewers have swooned

Last week my mother spent a night in the hospital because of atrial fibrillation.  Her heart gets out of rhythm, and it needs to be

It’s only January and already I can’t stand another minute of “news coverage” of the presidential race.  I have stopped listening to the yammering—from the

I apologize for passing over the many great posts since Theresa’s post on vocation, but I’d like to go back to that topic—which seems to

Books lying around the house are never safe from my readerly omnivory.  So naturally I grabbed up the book my husband received from his brother

I spent this first week of Advent thinking about idolatry.  It started with a This American Life podcast on the Penn State disaster, in which

You’ve probably heard the news from Southern California.  There’s been some recent interesting related activity on my facebook feed.  Thought you’d enjoy. Thanks to Ron Rienstra for

A girl can’t spend every minute thinking deep thoughts and reading classic literature, so on occasion I flop on the couch and watch myself a