catapult magazine

Items tagged life

• <I>About Schmidt</I>--about us?

  New movie is darkly comical in its approach to some of life's major questions.

• The meaning of Pro-Life

  A series of five high school devotionals challenges students to adhere to the broad definition of "pro-life" by protecting the lives of the all God's children: the born, the unborn, and the self.

• Spring for *cino

  New life is everywhere and summer is near.

• Dreaming as a gift

  Taking time to develop a vision for our lives can simultaneously break and mend our hearts.

• New life in adoption

  On traveling to China to adopt a daughter.

• Putting the journey to music

  A review of James McMurtry's Too Long in the Wasteland.

• Lessons from the garbage bin

  On cultivating an appropriate attitude toward cleaning up life?s messes.

• Template <i>(Store for Future Use)</i>

  A letter for an as-yet unformed person, a letter imagined, and a letter that may never be sent.

• Imagine a world

  A review of The Children of Men by P. D. James.

• The sacrificial rat

  On the paradoxes and perils of rodent home invasion.

• Studying a storyteller to share the Good News

  A review of the work of storyteller Michael Perry.

• A thousand years

  An autumn evening prompts reflection on numbering our days.

• A decameron of sneaky honesties

  A tour of some of the author’s formative memories in search of the pattern of convictions.

• A shifting image

  On family gatherings marked by new life and loss.

• Ten things to do before I die

  A list of experiences to savor after fifty.

• Inside seasons

  A review of Tamara Jenkins’ film The Savages.

• A song in my home

  How making a first home can be a re-discovery of self.

• Ten reasons I believe in God ... and the devil, too

  Naming the evidence, large and small.

• An American question

  Identifying cultural differences for expectations of the good life.

• Splendid gratitude

  On slowing down enough to see what there is to celebrate.

• Life sentence

  Ten grammar lessons for life from a middle school grammar teacher.