Betty Rivard

I saw in The Washington Post where the newly appointed Bishop of the Wheeling-Charleston Diocese of the Catholic Church, Evelio Menjivar-Ayala, referred to our state’s similarity to his home country

I was never like one of those boys or men I knew who could memorize and recite detailed baseball statistics for player after player, game after game or year after

What happens when what one person feels as a moral imperative collides with another person’s feeling of a different moral imperative?

Are others also seeing more and more evidence of people speaking out, thinking for themselves and expressing their own views?

New York Times writer Melissa Kirsch recently said, “Sometimes, our preference for certitude, our need to define things with conviction, closes us off from possibility.”

“How do you stay so positive?” This is a question that I frequently hear from readers of my opinion pieces when I run into them.

Polls show that most of the people in our country are dissatisfied with the way things are going and want change right now. In envisioning and working towards change, it

By Betty Rivard 3 min to read When growing up in Michigan, I used to love to shop for new clothes ahead of the first day of school, which — at the time — was the day after Labor Day.

The constructs that we create for our political understandings can affect our actions. It is tempting but also risky to look at everything as black and white or blue and red, even during this season of zero sum elections with winners and losers.

I have always heard that one of the challenges of getting older is witnessing the passing of more of the people who we love and respect. I did not read everything that Wendell Berry wrote, but I loved what I read. His writing especially resonated for me once I had settled in rural West Virginia and found so many echoes of his insights here.