On a recent Saturday night, my husband and I went to a concert for an Irish punk band he had been following for over half a decade. We arrived at ...

In the midst of a contentious election year and on the heels of Barbara Ehrenreich's acclaimed bestseller Nickel and Dimed comes a new book about ...

Fresh out of graduate school a decade ago, I was hired as a speech pathologist for a not-for-profit agency serving the inner city poor. My therapy room contained an ...

My name is Tony Rossi and I'm a registered Republican. There, I admit it. I don't remember what year I registered, but it was before I started paying much attention to politics. The GOP seemed to share ...

When my mother died while I was in college, my grandmother became like a mother to me. The matriarch of our large Italian family, Grandma was a strong person who ...

"I don't have words to explain how I feel. Please pray, that's all I can ask," said the e-mail that my friend ...

After a long weekend of bars, booze, and boys, I make it a point to attend Sunday night Mass. As I repent for any sins I may have committed in ...

It was the last week of December when a co-worker came bearing delectable treats like cheesecake, cookies, and tarts. "Our department can't eat another bite," she groaned. I groaned right back. "Thanks, but we've been pigging ...

I boarded a bus in Washington, DC, complete with wailing children, frustrated parents, and a man be-bopping to the loud music on his earphones for ...

It rumbles near. The playoffs have ended, and the "Event," the "All" soon arrives, on February 1st, only the second time the Super Bowl has been played ...

"Some dreams can't be shared," warns the tagline for "House of Sand and Fog." And thus the ominous stage is set for dreams to collide: those of Kathy Nicolo (Jennifer Connelly) ...

When I got engaged two and a half years ago, people offered advice at every turn. I was given the names of good photographers, told the best place ...

My body screamed: "I've only had four hours of sleep!" But at 6:30 in the morning, some inner yearning drew me from my flannel sheets into the snowy winter morning. Looking back at last winter, I ...

Kim Schiel remembers swimming with her Catholic friends during college and noticing a row of scabs on the upper thigh of one of the females. This female was a ...

The turning point was not being able to find a pew without a direct view of the dead saint's remains in that crystal coffin under the altar. The experience was so bad that I walked ...

There are certain things one simply does not announce about oneself upon meeting a marriage-eligible member of the opposite sex. Such as: "I've refrained from sexual intercourse because my body is a Temple of the Holy ...

In November of 2002, baseball's all-time hits leader had the following conversation with the commissioner of baseball, Bud Selig: "Yes, sir, I did bet on baseball," Pete Rose said during the meeting, ...

Many marathoners experience moments of grace on the run, but not all of their spiritual sensations are ...

Rushing out the door on my way to work, I was stopped cold by large yellow spray-painted letters: F-U-C-K. The word screamed from the white fence separating my apartment building from my neighbor's home. Worse yet, ...

Election year 2004 is upon us. As the news media starts to drop other stories and the frenzy begins, the idea of what important news we may miss due to this political preoccupation gives me ...