Tag: Effie Caldarola

Mom was recuperating, years ago, in front of the television set in her hospital room following surgery. As she grew older, surgery was hard on...

"All the leaves are brown. And the sky is gray." As we lean into another Advent, that opening line of "California Dreamin'" plays in my...

So, after two years, I finally succumbed to COVID-19. When I woke up feeling like a cold was coming, I wasn't surprised. I'd been exposed...

My great-grandfather, a refugee from the devastating famine in Ireland, came to Nebraska to farm. Generations later, I grew up on that farm. I have...

When you think about the Vatican, great filmmaking isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. But a documentary released by the Vatican on the...

Words, and how we use them, have great power. During Senate hearings regarding the nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court, Justice...

There was a Trump rally held in my old hometown of Anchorage, Alaska, recently. I've read the news reports, but the thing I keep...

I went to high school before Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision establishing a woman's constitutional right to abortion and an absolute...

Is America's collective teeth grinding an indication of its happiness level? A Twitter user mentioned how badly she grinds her teeth in her sleep. A...

Like life itself, Lent starts out nice and slow. And suddenly, Easter is upon us. There may have been a Lenten midway point, or maybe...