One time, When I was in high school and going through the college admission’s process, my English teacher, Ed Breslin, told me that life isn’t always about what you know; often, he said, it’s about who you know. I didn’t even know what he meant, but his insight would turn out to be great foreshadowing. […]
Have you ever made a new year’s resolution that you truly intended to keep, only to chide yourself in the first week of January for failing to keep it? I did it for years and felt like a big, fat loser. But I went on making resolutions every year, even though my inability to keep […]
Did you know that some of the busiest airports in the world have chapels? It’s true. I’ve used them occasionally. To sit in solitude and pray for selfish ends like short security lines, an aisle seat, and a family vacation where no one bickers. Until my friend told me she was leaving ridiculously early for […]