We got the call at the end of church this morning. My uncle had suffered a heart attack and was in surgery at the hospital. As a rule, we ra...

When I was a teenager, THE thing to do in summer was attend Centrifuge, a Christian "camp" which didn't come anywhere close t...

To have a highly commercialized, supposedly “recession proof” holiday that celebrates an emotion still seems odd to me. On Valentine's ...

A former mistress shares the details of her affair on public television. Her words, I won't remember beyond tomorrow. But her image, I w...

Another media darling in the news, this time with a chorus line of affairs--too shocking, too outrageously good for TV ratings to keep priva...

One minute, I was cutting an onion while the twins noisily pushed each other, jockeying for the best position around my feet. The next, the ...

He firmly grasps the wooden handle with both hands and stretches the sharpened ax out in front of him, learning its weight before he fulfill...