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  • Finding Cheer in a COVID Christmas

    Finding Cheer in a COVID Christmas0

    When the Civil War interrupts the Christmas plans of the March sisters in Louisa May Alcott’s novel Little Women, the four lament their reduced prospects for a happy holiday. “Christmas won’t be Christmas without any presents,” Jo says. Many of us likely feel similarly to Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy as we reach the end of

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  • Finding Authentic Male Friendship in a Loneliness Epidemic

    Finding Authentic Male Friendship in a Loneliness Epidemic5

    In an increasing online world, people are lonelier than ever, especially men. In a 2021 study, 15 percent of men reported having no close friends, up from only three percent in the early 1990s. Perhaps more alarmingly, 28 percent of young men (under 30 years old) reported not having any close social connections. As a

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  • Finding and Losing Train Culture

    Finding and Losing Train Culture1

    My family and I are in the process of moving to a small town in northwest Ohio called Fostoria. We are here for practical reasons—it is the town closest to where I work that has a good Catholic school. That said, I have found the people, on the whole, to be quite charming and welcoming.

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  • Finding a Way Out When at Your Wit’s End

    Finding a Way Out When at Your Wit’s End0

    In the center of our office fridge hangs a poem called “Wit’s End Corner,” by Antoinette Wilson. Discovered when our office was going through a difficult time, it hangs on the fridge as a reminder of the storms we’ve weathered and as an encouragement for the storms we will most certainly face in the future.

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  • Finding a Perfect Mate Starts With Self

    Finding a Perfect Mate Starts With Self1

    The online world is negatively affecting the American dating scene. If you didn’t suspect that already, an experience recorded by Villanova professor Anna Bonta Moreland over at First Things will make that clear. Moreland explains how she gave her students an online discussion assignment to share their dating experiences. The results were very moving and revealed

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  • Finding a Great Getaway From Our Crazy Time

    Finding a Great Getaway From Our Crazy Time12

    “You have to be always drunk,” wrote the French poet Charles Baudelaire. “That’s all there is to it—it’s the only way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, you have to be continually drunk.” “But on what?” Baudelaire asks. With “wine, with

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