catapult magazine

Items tagged Father

• All we like sheep

  Our attempts at self-preservation deny a larger reality.

• Late night thoughts on what being a parent teaches about being God

  A parent of two following The One Rule learns a bit about the nature of the Parent of us all.

• Death and birth

  Reflections on becoming a parent.

• Fragments of a sort of Midwestern hagiography

  Sometime the saint is in our blood.

• Cards on the table

  What happens when we give one another permission to hold us accountable?

• An un-quiet existence

  What a quiet kid learned about identity and parenting from her own small town upbringing.

• A reason to smile

  A daughter’s medical condition requires finding a way to confront and understand death and suffering.

• Storytelling

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

• Danyale’s wedding

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

• A chisel to remember him by

  A simple tool can tell a book’s worth of memories.

• Portraits: Men of the Church

  Four lyrical snapshots, taken over two weeks of celebration.

• Fathers matter

  A morning revelation creates space for grief and discovery.

• I know I just met you, but I love you

  Reflections on becoming a father.

• What a friend we have in guilt

  On falling in with the wrong crowd after a misstep.

• Then who would I be?

  A daughter bears the marks of her parents, human and divine.

• Eyes to see

  A father reflects on what it means to let art in.

• Reasons

  On parenting in the wake of a husband's suicide.

• An unmarked path

  A reflection on a father-son tradition.

• In search of mishigami

  A story about how a lake brings a daughter, her father and her grandfather together.

• Sherman’s gift

  A pumpkin pie recipe -- and a life -- to remember.

• Have mercy

  The journey from non-denom girl to Anglican woman.

• Saying “yes” to a simpler life

  How priorities can shift after having children.

• Caught in the middle

  Considering the differences between a mother’s and a father’s legacy of belonging.

• Treasures in my tin

  On the things we hold dear, and the things that lose their luster between generations.