Holy Week is upon us again and I have a question. What do parenting Gen Z and Holy Week have in common? Bear with me here. Even if you're not trying to parent a Gen Z teen right now, you're probably aware of some of the anxieties around it. Gone is the school of hard knocks and just rubbing dirt on it, replaced by helicopter parents and participation trophies. Whatever your feelings are on those topics, and I'm sure that this is eliciting some strong responses, they both come from a...

This essay was written by Nancy Dunlop, Ph.D. They’re simply called, “the monks.” They number anywhere from 19-24 monks at any given time. And all they are doing is walking. That’s it. So far, they’ve walked through Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. They are currently making their way through Virginia, then on to Maryland, and finally, Washington D.C. Their walk will total 2,300 miles. They began Oct. 26 and intend to reach D.C on Feb. 10....

My father-in-law was, what you could charitably call, a character. He was an Italian American of the old school - sprawling families in multi-level homes and pots of gravy (or marinara, to the uninitiated) burbling on the stove until it reached the consistency of hot lava. He loved going out to eat Italian food, usually at someone else's expense, but would invariably peruse the menu with predictable and mounting indignation as he saw dish after dish that he could personally make at home, to...