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You believe that municipal budget problems would be solved if local governments simply enforced the existing fines for talking and texting on cell phones while driving a car.

It hit some of you as soon as the confetti fell on the New York Giants, who were hoisting the Lombardi Trophy at Super Bowl XLVI.

Speaking a year ago at Calvert Hall College High School in Towson, John Garvey predicted that threats to religious liberty would become the most important issue facing the Catholic Church in the United States in the next half century.

Springtime on the farm had a natural rhythm that heightened around Easter, when frozen earth was finally thawing and turning the farmyard into a muddy mess. My siblings and I spent our time searching for new litters of kittens and collecting eggs, which we had missed during winter’s dark days when hens take leave from laying.

For the most part, little girls grow up dreaming about getting married.

While the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic dominated pop culture last month, my sentiments steered toward more personal milestones.

Maya Angelou has been quoted as saying, “People will forget what you said. They will forget what you did. But they will never forget how you made them feel.”

What is more astonishing, the magnificence and volume of our blessings or the manner in which we take them for granted?

Four months ago, a close friend texted me a photo – a positive pregnancy test.

“Barrytown provided Roosevelt his first opportunity to hear the earth inhale and exhale without interference from the noise and stench of the industrial revolution.”