I am known as a chronic over-packer when it comes to travel. Something as simple as a weekend away will...

A few months ago, I introduced my five-year-old to one of my favorite stories. When I first read The Lion,...

I can feel the red rising in my cheeks and ears, the sweat threatening to dampen my shirt, my pulse...

Years ago, an impressive thunderstorm hit while we were at Mass. The storm was as abrupt as it was powerful...

It's sometimes tricky to approach Scripture like today's Gospel when your life is, well, average. I don't often encounter the...

I stood in the bookstore, running my hands over book covers and flipping through those with the most interesting titles....

Today's Gospel reading (see Luke 9:18-22) is such a tender-hearted one: here the disciples stand before their Lord after many...

There are certain events that are permanently seared into my memory—the fall of the World Trade Center, the fall of...

I don't like letting go. I especially don't like letting go of situations in which I have deeply invested my...

I held the one-month old infant in my arms that frigid Minnesota morning. His four older brothers looked on dressed...

I've spent years with others' lights shining around me, and proudly so. The sister who's an international speaker, the brother...

The other day as I was praying, I kept thinking about a friend who shared with me that she felt...

As you read this, most of the Blessed is She Team is gathered on retreat. We are a small community...

Last summer, I made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land and spent a month journeying from town to town in...

So often when women visit my office and sit in the “chair of weeping,” they begin with apologies for their...

“You’re damned if you do and damned if you don’t.” That’s the disheartening sentiment that I usually mumble to myself...

When I was eighteen, I began studying at Arizona State University. In the sea of 65,000 students, I no longer...