Don’t tell me about the world. Not today. It’s springtime and they’re knocking baseballs around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball. —Pete Hamill I once knew a woman who, when preparing the first fruit salad of summer, would lop off … Read more
“A true culture of life cannot be sustained solely by changing laws,” President Bush told the crowd at the March for Life rally in January. “We need, most of all, to change hearts.” Not everyone appreciated his comments. “Maybe he is an idiot,” conservative pundit Ann Coulter fumed in her syndicated column. “The ‘changing hearts’ … Read more
When I was a little girl, our family knew a Frenchwoman. I don’t recall her name, but I remember her vividly. She seemed to me very glamorous and mysterious, forever wearing a too-bright shade of lipstick, smelling of a heavy overlay of carnation and a dim underlay of what I now recognize as vodka. She … Read more