belle, interrupted

"Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.” -Matthew 5:4 Yesterday, my Facebook and Twitter feeds were awash with pos...

{ 2 Corinthians 12:9-10}  But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I ...

I don’t have children, but there are so many babies in my life whom I can’t imagine loving any more than I already do if they were mine biol...

by Colum McCann "I suppose one finally learns, after much searching, that we really only belong to ourselves." I can't thi...

by Ian McEwan Finishing Sweet Tooth was my consolation accomplishment for never having finished Atonement. It's a difficult book to ca...

About two weeks ago, I replaced my nighttime moisturizer with Marula Oil  at the suggestion of the Sephora employee who had to deal with my ...

For all my talk about how I didn't want to see this film, about how staring at Bruce Dern for two hours couldn't be anything but agg...

I think we can all agree (at least, we ladies can all agree) that we'd watch a film consisting entirely of Bradley Cooper eating sunflow...

Wow.  I've seen Meryl Streep in everything from Death Becomes Her to The Bridges of Madison County, from Doubt to The Devil Wears Prada,...

Since the Golden Globes, where Woody Allen received some sort of lifetime achievement award, there's been a great deal of discussion abo...