Jack Spatafora

It's almost here again. America's annual love affair with conquest and triumph. Some call it a rite of spring; others, a metaphor for life. Actually it's the 134th season of...

The Christmas season is perhaps the most written about time of the year in America. There are stories about everyone from Ebenezer Scrooge to the Little Drummer Boy; reports about...

Thanksgiving has turned into one of our stranger holidays. Despite its warm images of hot, steaming meals being shared by smiling family members gathered around candle-lighted tables, it has accumulated...

Sometimes you have to feel sorry for today's sportswriters, because what they cover has become increasingly silly and downright weird. This is not to indict all athletes and all games,...

We have reached that extraordinary time of year, the holiday season, when our three most festive celebrations consume thousands of hours, millions of dollars and, most important of all, a...

The ritual has been going on for generations--that almost liturgical moment when young parents cut loose the lines that have tethered their child to the small harbors of their homes....

The right to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" is perhaps the most memorable chord Thomas Jefferson struck in our Declaration of Independence 228 years ago today. Every school...

Memorial Day is a day for national reflection, a time to reconsecrate the memories of our fallen warriors. Minds flash with iconic images: the battlefield of Gettysburg, the black smoke...

Motherhood has a history. For most centuries it was simply an expected biological function. Christianity helped change that. With its devotion to Mary as the mother of God, motherhood now...

On Valentine's Day we naturally turn to matters of the heart. But I'm thinking more parent love than boy-girl love. A few years ago I was watching a TV drama...