CrossCurrents
Letting it all be true
by Mary Kate O’Leary ’20
Melancholy concert tour
by John Crawford ’01MFA
This is (more or less) how the medicine works
by Emma Dale
Hands of time
by Erin Buckley ’08
Editor’s Note: A birthday celebration
by Kerry Temple ’74
At 50, the magazine provides a library of stories that speak of Notre Dame and the lives and times documented on these pages.
by Valerie Sayers
Notre Dame has changed immeasurably in the decades between my coming and leaving. Always slowly. Sometimes surprisingly.
by Kathleen Sprows Cummings ’99Ph.D.
The Holy Cross Sisters, so integral to Notre Dame’s very existence, have faded from our institutional memory in what may seem a longstanding sin of omission.
by David Gibson
Catholicism has clearly lost ground in the American cultural landscape. Perhaps the way forward requires a new look at timeless tenets of faith.
by Scott Russell Sanders
We have never wanted to slow down, be told to conserve our resources or deny the spoils of our success. Our fragile legacy is our children’s world.
by Jason Kelly ’95
The history of college athletics can be measured in a series of singular moves that traditionalists said were steps too far.
by Andrew Santella
The intrepid adventurer and frontier foodie dynamically accelerated the race for greater convenience. But at what cost?
by Anthony Walton ’82
The promise and performance of American education, once a point of national pride, is burdened by society’s ills and struggling to heal inequities in the system.
by Heather Treseler ’10Ph.D.
There are deeper meanings, I am sure, in this winding saga of my body and me.
by Julia Scott
He was imaginary and he was kind and he got left behind, along with my childhood, until he returned last year to keep me company again. It’s all good.
by Mark Phillips
‘I would like to talk of Linda telephoning me on a July afternoon back when summer vacations from school conjured an eternity. About a girl inviting me to her house, and my walking several miles past scores of small, ranch-style homes constructed with the help of the GI bill.’
by Mary Kate O’Leary ’20
by John Crawford ’01MFA
by Emma Dale
by Erin Buckley ’08