True love
Each year between January and March, my family moves out into the wide world. Some of us go to college, others go to work,...
Felix Culpa
At the bank a few years back, my friendly teller and I were chatting in the way that sometimes happens when you are about the...
Fall trees
Our November 2012 cover artist, Anne-Marie Doyle, lives in Toronto, selling pumpkin pie and pumpkin spice coffee and finishing her last semester of English...
Sarah’s Helpful Holiday Hints
Do you hear that friends? The ring, ting, tinkling of sleigh bells accosting your ears in the grocery store or while you’re waiting at...
Truth and contradiction
Yesterday, my sister (who is no longer pregnant), my new nephew, my niece, my brother-in-law, and I went grocery shopping. This was my sister's...
My Sister’s Keeper: A Pro-Life Book Review
It all begins with a bruise: a little clover-shaped bruise. While bathing her two-year-old daughter, Sarah finds a trail of little brown bruises running...
Feelings: it’s simple.
In many ways we live in an age of “feeling.” If we feel something—anything—we show it, talk about it, dissect it, and take it...
The perfect relationship
Anybody heard of Pinterest? If you haven’t, count your lucky stars because you’ve just "gained" back hours and hours of time to waste on...
Life is not a fairy tale.
When a person gets everything that she wants, when she has all the things that she thinks she needs, and life is being wonderfully...
The Poor Souls
"It ain't right, and I'm sick and tired of what ain't right," says a character in the western Silverado. That's how I feel about...