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 Friends, it has been a longer time than I like to contemplate, but this trilogy remains one of the major priorities of my artistic life.  S...

Nicholas Kristof takes a swing at offering less politically divisive suggestions to reduce gun deaths in the US in a feature-length opinion ...

 Fr. James Martin was out doing Fr. James Martin things again yesterday, responding to a Catholic League piece which described civil same se...

 I contributed to a Twitter thread the other day on the subject of grocery price inflation, and several hours later received a direct messag...

As my brother John kept vigil by baby Josh's side the other night, having never yet held his son, he composed this song on one of the th...

Dear friends, let me beg your prayers for my newborn nephew Joshua George. He was born five weeks early, on Dec. 31, and due to complication...

  I wrote last week about the household economy and how being a single income family (where I hold down an outside job to pay the bills and ...

It has been a busy fall, as my two-month absence from these pages might suggest.  Directing my first stage play in many years was a wonderfu...

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, born Joseph Ratzinger, passed away today at the age of 95.  There will be many words spoken about him in the com...

Twelve years ago today, we moved into our house. The first thing we did that first night, Darwin and I and baby Diana, five months old, was ...

Previous Here they were again, all crying, except, of course, Elinor. Marianne’s agony billowed from her room in wave after ear-splitting wa...

Gentle readers: Mrs. Dashwood is not on hold, technically. It's just that last week was fantastic weather in Ohio -- balmy, beautiful, a...

Previous The next morning promised fair, after days of rain, and all three girls left in good spirits for breakfast at Barton. Mrs. Dashwood...

I t's NaNoWriMo, and a lot has happened since I dropped my project last year. Let's see if I remember how to do this... *** Previous...

MrsDarwin as Mrs. White; Isabel as Yvette  We are gearing up for our production of Clue on Stage this weekend. Production week is familiarl...