catapult magazine

Items tagged family

• Top ten meals in recent memory

  On the moments when the ritual of gathering for food transcends the elements themselves.

• A baker's dozen of the top ten rules for parenting

  In no particular order, the most important things one father has learned about raising children.

• Reviving Messalina

  A review of the documentary Sex: The Annabel Chong Story.

• Gainful unemployment

  A resigned nurse learns to be still and value a new kind of productivity.

• In the difficult moment

  The mother of an infant girl struggles to stay in the present through crisis.

• A lonely planet

  A review of the film Notes On A Scandal directed by Richard Eyre.

• Navigating family history

  A tradition of boating finds its current home in longing.

• More than passing

  On one particular hobby that flourishes in all conditions.

• Prozac, Paxil, Nortriptyline--Go Noyeses!

  An exploration of how prescription medication can affect quality of life for a family.

• Returning to the why of music

  A journey comes full circle…or does it?

• Mean old world

  The Good News of holy week can be an awfully scary story.

• Acting as if

  On a mother's struggle to care for herself and her children in the wake of a Lenten suicide.

• A word is worth a thousand pictures

  On the objective journaling of cinema.
  

• Reading the stash

  What does your stuff say about you?  To you?

• The ABCs of fake family dining

  A family tours the alphabet by eating out.

• You had me at tapas

  A self-proclaimed food snob finds satisfaction in St. Louis.

• (Hyper)tension and energy

  A tension of thought reveals itself in physical symptoms.

• Here on earth

  The memory of yards captured in photographs recalls a journey of inherited wonder.

• Outdoor heart

  Deconstructing garden admiration reveals a longing for self expression.

• White

  An attempt to embrace a subject that produces more questions than answers.

• Strangers and aliens

  On how globalized habits can affect the search for identity.

• Sand sculpture and the body of Christ

  An annual event on Lake Michigan is a lesson in community.

• Forgiveness and responsibility

  Experiences with family and community reveal lessons about forgiveness and the ways in which we fight those lessons.

• Storytelling

  Thoughts from a writing teacher and father-to-be.

• When I was born

  On listening to both the factual and fictional stories that surround us.

• Danyale’s wedding

  A story about a man, a woman, a ceremony and more.

• A story before bed

  Reflection on a nighttime ritual that fills various kinds of needs.

• Remember that time...

  A grandfather’s death brings an opportunity to reflect on family stories.

• Death in the family

  A grandmother’s stories about death and destruction warrant both laughter and love.

• A year of life in "the zoo"

  On the joys and challenges of living in Christian community.