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‘Stay at home, Mom?’
BYAnd here we are, the quintessential stay-at-home red button crisis issue. Our kid is only kind of sick, and we can’t figure out if we should send him to school or not.
Read full articleHow could they?
BYIt started as a tour of Civil War sites, but the end result was much deeper.
Read full articleGotta Have It Now, Right Now
BYWe used to work hard to earn the American dream. Today our desires aren’t so patient. We’re driven by an appetite for instant gratification.
Read full articleCome on, baby, end my wait
BYAs we inch closer to the due date, I try to wrap my mind around this baby situation. It’s just the two of us for now, and while our lives are on the verge of big changes, Hattie feels at peace.
Read full articleAverage Joe styles world-class bread
BYJoe Bellavance ’89 knows how to get people to stop at his trade show booth. He fires up an oven he’s schlepped there from home and bakes his signature artisan bread.
Read full articleIf I can’t remember who I am ...
BYI forget things more and more these days, a tendency I attribute to growing older. To be honest, at 51, I’m not sure which makes me more anxious: my thinning hair or my lethargic synapses.
Read full articleThe Rome of the Americas
BYWinds of change are stirring in Cuba, and Notre Dame’s School of Architecture is exploring opportunities to help the city of Havana frame its future while preserving the rich and classic beauty of its past.
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BYSome side notes from associate editor John Nagy’s trip to Havana.
Read full articleWired for Rewards
BYThe maxim, “With age comes wisdom,” may in fact have a neurological basis.
Read full articleThe world we live in
BYI spoke the other night to a group of ND students about writing. The Career Center had gotten us together to talk about careers in publishing.
Read full articleHey, look, it’s that guy you’ve seen in lots of movies and TV shows
BYRichard Riehle ’70 has been known as many things in his career: character actor, theater standout and, more than anything, as the “jump to conclusions” guy from the movie Office Space (1999).
Read full articleMy Fair Share
BYThere’s a great and growing divide in America between the rich and the poor, and it’s threatening our economic health and tearing the national fabric.
Read full article‘Suite’ at 55
BYDaniel Madoff stands in a rigid pose on the Decio Mainstage Theatre stage as the spotlight rises. The dancer contorts his body in a series of complex phrases that have become synonymous with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
Read full article2011 big event: Regis bids farewell to his morning TV show
BYRegis Philbin, ND class of 1953, ended his morning talk show duties on Live! with Regis and Kelly on Nov. 18, 2011. The man often spoke enthusiastically of his alma mater on the air, regaling audiences with affectionate descriptions of everything s from his favorite duck in Saint Mary’s Lake to the courtrooms in the new Eck Hall of Law.
Read full articleLucie and Me
BYShe was my student, I her teacher. But as life wheeled around, so, too, the swing of our friendship — until she became my very own fairy godmother.
Read full articleThe sacred and secular at Ground Zero
BYIn the 10 years since 9/11, the section of Lower Manhattan known as Ground Zero has resonated in the minds and hearts of Americans more than any other place in the nation, not because of what it is — a 16-acre hole in the ground that you can walk around in about 20 minutes — but rather because of what it represents.
Read full articleTV’s frequent flyer
BYIt’s 2007 and I’m trying to catch a plane from Miami to Newark on Super Bowl Sunday. As I boarded I saw, nestled there in first class among those flying for business or wanting just a little extra comfort, Regis Philbin.
Read full articleEscorted to eternity
BYDeath came to our house in February 1960. It was a Saturday morning. I was 7, playing alone in my front yard. My sister, four years older than I, came outside and said, “Grandmother died.” Our eyes met, then she turned and went back into the house.
Read full articleFlights of Fancy
BYIn a world where the supernatural is threatened with extinction, the sacred may survive in the lands of fairies, fantasy and fable.
Read full articleKiljoy is here
BYIs this wrong? Whenever I see the work of one of those so-called “tag artists” — the stuff most of us call “graffiti” — I sometimes have this fantasy. It usually begins with me finding the guy’s house and, when he’s not there, painting some odd, indecipherable words on his living-room wall in big, bulbous letters.
Read full articleTime Enough for a Story
BYAs life quickens by and the generations pass, stories are handed down like heirlooms, told and retold to help us try to make sense of it all.
Read full articleWhere Steve Jobs left us
BYEven as we mourn the death of Steve Jobs and laud his enormous contributions, we must be mindful of the power of his innovations and ensure that, by using them, our humanity is not compromised.
Read full articleThe Playroom: Smartphone diaries
BYMy iPhone is broken and I am eating nonstop, a bona fide bender. Contemplating driving to the nearest Krispy Kreme donut store, but it’s 30 miles away.
Read full article@nd.edu: Thoreau wouldn’t own a smartphone
BYLong before technology wrapped its gnarled fingers around man and became its master, Henry David Thoreau wisely said, “Men have become the tools of their tools.” Decades and now five iPhone versions later, we have entered an age where instead of holding our smartphones, our smartphones have a chokehold on us.
Read full articleWhat fools these mortals be
BYWhen as an adjunct professor of English in Texas, I taught (or perhaps more accurately exposed) the skill of essay writing to college freshmen, I customarily would assign as my students’ first research project the Authorship Question: Who wrote Shakespeare?
Read full articleHer songs, her way
BYKate Borkowski says she’s been told “my speaking voice sounds like a kid.” When she actually was a kid, singing around the house, her parents would advise her: “Belt it out!” The singer-songwriter will have none of that.
Read full articleGetting in the game, from Peter Sellers to Captain America
BYThe projects Stephen McFeely ’91 and Chris Markus have been taking on for the past decade are ripe for potential sermonizing. As the screenwriting team for this summer’s Captain America: The First Avenger and for The Chronicles of Narnia movies, McFeely and Markus have resisted many opportunities to swing for the allegorical fences.
Read full articleDealing with the Dead
BYThe deceased were not the only victims of the mortuary tent in Logar Province, Afghanistan. Even the living are still haunted by the place.
Read full articleLet me tell you . . .
BYI believe in the healing of story. I think it’s good for people to talk it out. There is something clarifying, curative, restorative in the telling; some would call it “therapeutic.”
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