The intricacy of plotting a thriller is akin to writing formal poetry.

The generation of women who came before us did much of our shouting. They laid the groundwork and now we can be calm and constant and steady.

Are there books about us or something?” This makes Pressia angry - the idea that this world is a subject of study, a story, instead of filled with real people, trying to survive.

What does it mean to be Catholic and not a Catholic? I feel adrift, homeless. My Catholic imagination allows me to see the soul as a lit breath, seeking the divine. It persists.

Red Sox fans have been pushed to the brink over the years, but that's how faith grows stronger.

I believe we're brutes, but then, miraculously, there are those among us who stand up against that brutishness and remind us of the goodness we're capable of.

Is it wrong to kill something that wants to kill you?