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  • Finding Freedom From Fear In Anxious Times

    Finding Freedom From Fear In Anxious Times0

    Fear. Nervousness. Anxiety. If you are lucky enough to avoid these feelings dominating your person right now and turning a few more hairs gray, then you can likely still smell them in the air and see them in the actions of those around you. It doesn’t matter which political party people align themselves with. Liberals’

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  • Finding COVID-19’s True Fatality Rate

    Finding COVID-19’s True Fatality Rate0

    Early reports from January painted a grim picture about just how deadly the coronavirus was. Initially, the World Health Organization estimated that the percentage of infected individuals who die from COVID-19 was 3.4 percent. That statistic is called the infection fatality rate (IFR) – or colloquially, the death rate – and means that for every

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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 Epidemic9

    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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