Living

It's not easy to recognize when you are in an abusive relationship — and even harder to leave one.

As the flowers bloomed, died and bloomed again, I grieved losses and experienced a renewed hope. Slowly, we all began to recover.

How does a lifelong, faithful Catholic, reconcile herself with a church plagued by the scandal and horrors of clergy sexual abuse and cover-up?

The things people do while they're waiting at a red light range from amusing to odd to just plain gross. Celia Marszal-Iannellli conducted her own survey.

Whether you realize it or not, the slang you use says a lot about how old you are.

God wastes nothing in our lives — all our life experiences fit into His plan to become spiritual treasures when we most need them.

Know that the Lord is present in the intense suffering of your life. He will see you through the fire. These trials by fire will not consume you and will even cause new growth to emerge and new beauty to flourish in the ashes.

Nutritional studies are right...until they aren't. What are we supposed to believe when studies about butter, red meat, coffee, eggs and more are turned upside down years after they're first accepted?

Riverhead resident Thelma Booker, a Peconic Bay Medical Center/ Northwell Health volunteer, has been elected president of the Nassau-Suffolk Council of Hospital Auxiliaries.

In this hyper-connected world we are very disconnected from one another. Sometimes we scroll through our "news feeds" like we were perusing a catalog for something that gains our attention.  I invite you today to #stopandpray