Category: Family.

My friend Chris turned 30 and got depressed. We both worked in radio and while it’s a fine occupation, one can begin to wonder what difference that last show really…

Bishop Joseph McFadden of Harrisburg, PA made this regrettable statement recently with regards to the public schools in his diocese. “In totalitarian governments, they would love our system,” McFadden said…

The Department of Health and Human Services in the Obama administration will soon require all employers to include “contraception and sterilization coverage in their health-insurance plans, including those provided to…

So as you head home for Thanksgiving, I’ll share with you a piece I wrote for UBCatholic.com–which you should be reading anyway! Some thoughts to ponder if you end up…

Happy Feast Day to all my Franciscan friends. We held a rainy blessing of the animals day here on Sunday, so my pictures were awful and Haze, my dog, doesn’t…

A joyous New Year to our Jewish friends–but most especially to my family members: Dan and Laura Eder and their children: Ronnie, Becky, Ben, Molly and (most especially, because I…

So I’m beginning a third year here in Buffalo and it’s taken some time but Buffalo is starting to feel more and more like “Home.” I wouldn’t say that it’s…

Ginny Kubitz Moyer, a fine writer and blogger over at Random Acts of Momness, asked me to write about “The best gift my mom gave to me” for her outfit…

DailyMail has the story: Children crying in restaurants can be enough to frustrate even the most sympathetic diner. But one restaurateur is so fed up with noisy toddlers disturbing his…

My father was a school custodian and my mother didn’t work because of illness and her choice to stay home with me and my sister. There wasn’t always a lot…