catapult magazine

Items tagged family

• Crashing Waves

  A long illness and healing process shifts relationships and conceptions of self.

• When light emerges through the darkness

  On two authors who served as wise, faithful companions in the midst of uncertainty.

• My boy will know

  It wouldn't be the first time grace was entered the world as a newborn baby...

• The piles behind the screen

  How the marriage of simplicity and stashing survives under the same roof.

• Recycled abundance

  Remembering the Barter Sale at boarding school in Pakistan and the lessons it's still teaching.

• Having myself over for dinner

  Thoughts and misconceptions about eating alone.

• Gift enough

  On discovering true family and truer hope in a new place.

• Got plans?

  Reflections at the intersection of various cultural expectations about marriage and singleness.

• Life from scratch

  A life tapestry woven of baking bread and growing food and bearing children.

• Promised land gone

  Warning: asking long-time neighbors about family history might surprise you.

• Dwelling places

  A reflection on the complicated consideration of where to live.

• Dreams for sale

  Tracing a family's history and values through home spaces.

• The story of our home

  On reinforcing a sense of identity through loss.

• Beyond competition

  On moving from victory through superiority to upholding one another in love.

• Shades of joy

  A mother reflects on her children's faith journeys and the complexities of joy for Christian parents.

• Summer came early

  Reflections on experiences and lessons in joy, looking back on a life in the midst of death.

• Fidelity and fecundity

  A farmer reflects on lessons from twelve years of harvests that apply to growing vegetables and far beyond.

• A room of our own

  A call for help transforms personal crisis into communal effort.

• From oasis to desert island

  A short account of an ideal vision for community that came tumbling down.

• Ten reasons I love to pay my taxes

  Reflections from a morning bike ride on the good things about chipping in.

• Welcome to the family

  True human connection is just a Profile away.

• Loving life, loving laughter

  A reflection on growing up in -- and growing -- a family that loves to laugh.

• Kid stories

  Why are kids so stinking funny?  Share your favorite stories.

• Refrigerator manifesto

  On shaping household culture through a Family Charter of Human Rights.

• Fog

  On learning to trust after life changes in a split second.

• Best friends

  Remembering the transformation of objects in a time of mourning.

• A piece of that holiday pie

  On a tradition that binds what's past, even as it teaches for the future.

• A peaceable feast

  Navigating family culinary traditions around the holidays with grace and vision.

• A wonderful life

  On family rituals as occasions to pass down heirloom memories of joy and sorrow.

• Ten things you can do to make your family vacation more community-building

  A list, counter-intuitive for some, on how to hit the road together.