The Download

You don’t have to have seen the movie, Field of Dreams to know its most famous line: “If you build it, he will come.” The 1989 movie tells the story…

Behind the congratulations, welcome gifts and newborn smiles, there is sometimes a different reality. A new mother may be exhausted and overwhelmed. She may feel hopeless. She may have terrifying…

“The ways we miss our lives are life.” — Richard Ford, Independence Day It’s a simple thought, but one that rings true. One of the quiet ironies of adulthood is…

As children, many of us heard the same advice: Choose your friends wisely. The people we spend time with shape how we think, what we believe, and the choices we…

Some memories never leave you. For me, it’s standing on an elementary school playground with a field hockey stick, hoping I wouldn’t accidentally score on my own team. Years later,…

I admit it — some days, between the headlines and the chaos of everyday life, I’m holding out for a hero. Every generation has had one — from Superman and…

“The whole drama of the world is such tragedy that I am weary of the spectacle.” — John Adams John Adams wasn’t the first — or the last — to…

The countdown to America’s 250th anniversary has begun. Soon we’ll celebrate with fireworks, cookouts, baseball games, and neighborhood gatherings — the traditions that make the Fourth of July uniquely American.…

Ever hear a song and then it gets stuck in your head for hours? Well, it happened to me this week. And the song that set up camp in my…

Growing up, one of my parents’ lectures seemed to be on permanent repeat: “No fighting.” The rule applied to everything. Don’t fight with your siblings. Don’t fight with the neighbor…