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It’s strawberry time! At last the strawberries are red and ripe. I can still hear the voice of the Arabber who used to bring his horse and cart through our Rodgers Forge neighborhood during the summer. He’d yell, “STRAW-berries! STRAW-berries!” He may have called out other words, but that’s the only one I remember. He

When we first started talking about adoption, the idea of an open adoption seemed daunting. How would we build an ongoing relationship with the birthmother—and possibly birthfather? If they were involved in our child’s life, would he or she be confused about whether we were his or her parents?We could

The John Carroll Class of 2013 is graduating tomorrow. Where does the time go? It seems as if they were just freshmen….Believe me, there has been excitement in the air all week:Fourteen of our seniors returned from Roatan, Honduras on Saturday after serving there for a week at the Sandy Bay

— 1 —Our 3-year-old son is a genius. At least that’s what he thinks. The other morning at breakfast he said, “Baba, I a genius.”“You’re a what?” John said.“I a genius,” he said, matter-of-factly.We just let it slide and moved on to another topic. We have no idea where he

They all ate and were satisfied.And when the leftover fragments were picked up,they filled twelve wicker baskets. These are the concluding words of the Gospel reading this weekend from Luke on the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, when we hear about Jesus feeding thousands of his

The past few weeks and the next few heading our way are full of milestones for our family, as they are for many others.  It got me thinking – just what are milestones?  Why are they so important?  Why do they elicit such a powerful emotional response from us?GraduationThough it

A Jesuit priest who is currently director of spiritual formation and professor of moral theology at Kenrick-Glennon Seminary in St. Louis has been named executive director of the Secretariat of Doctrine and Canonical Affairs of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington.

Since I love to tell stories, I find that they have a way of finding their way to me. Recently my good friend, Monsignor Ed Miller, the wonderful pastor of St. Bernardine in West Baltimore, told me a couple of them. They are both about children.

If you’re planning to fly with a toddler this summer, you’re probably already dreading the flights and the waits in the airports—which can be more challenging than the flights themselves.John and I are not seasoned travelers, but we have flown twice with toddlers on the marathon China-U.S. flights. Here are