The Welcoming Tree: Insights into nature and beauty from my mother’s last months of life
Please Come Back to Visit: Bringing our late parents home to Ireland
Playing on the edge of the world: Magical synchronicities preparing us for the advent of Armageddon
Give Me Back My Bag, Or I’ll Break Your Bloody Neck!: And other things my fairy godmother, the former mother superior, once said
I heard that his morals were dubious. Oh, very dubious indeed!: Fun facts, innuendo, and the legacy of poetic wisdom my mother left for us
The Beauty That Will Last: Music, poetry, and a love that outlives exile and dementia
She Looks Like She's Going to the Guillotine!: My mother's unforgettable running commentary on Jeopardy!
Never Go to Bed Angry—And Don’t Die That Way Either: Lessons in caregiving from the son of an Irishwoman who summoned Shakespeare like a switchblade
Three Weeks Late and Three Hours in the Birth Canal: My belated birthday, and other stories and poems my mother never let me forget
Have You Heard the One About Irish Alzheimer’s? What my parents’ dementia revealed about resentment, forgiveness, and joy
An Inheritance of Pride: My parents’ acts of courage helped me overcome my own fears
A Tale of Two Weddings: About that time our church learned we'd already been married. And why.
The Real Thing: My father was always himself—especially after his excommunication
An American Jesuit in Ireland urges the church to welcome LGBT faithful: The Rev. James Martin, a champion of LGBTQ Catholics, headed a conference in Ireland meant to reach out to them
'Hi, Felicia!': This married lesbian mom wants to turn deep-red Alabama seat blue
Entering the Holy Land through the back door: A daily dispatch from a reporting journey to Israel and Palestine
Sufi spirituality transcends religious borders in the Holy Land
