Say your full name out loud like an announcer from above. If you have a long-unbuttoned shirt, peacoat, or duster that can billow behind, great. Leave sparks in your wake and in every...

It explores responsive inner strength and perseverance, fragility, and vulnerability when confronted with emotional, physical, or cultural challenges that influenced and changed their lives.

The fourth night I saw him laughing with friends and I thought to myself, “There you are! There you ARE. What took you so long?” not out of frustration, but with wonder.

It’s hard, at sixty-five, to find beginnings. So many things seem to be tending the other way: one’s stamina, capacity for alcohol, tolerance for bullshit, and so on. My teaching...

I saw then how the river swelled, not with memories of the war, but with the promise of spring exploding in the laughing red firecrackers echoing from afar echoing from afar…

A stronger argument for happiness, for that theory of happy people remaining happy people throughout their lives, might be the sitcoms to which you keep returning. Take your favorite...

When we find out that we are about to welcome our newest guests on Guilford’s campus, we move fast. Usually, we only have two weeks to prepare. On some occasions, it is even shorter than...

When we silence our stories, we are diminished as beings and poorer as nations. Scratch the ground under your feet and our foundational past is laying right there. Archeologists and...

A new lightness of being came over me and I found that I enjoyed working out new ways to use my voice and develop my characters. I had never allowed myself to do such things when I was a...

In this delicate world, the tree is a threat and a reminder. The tree is the void that never fills, that never finds its way to my lap to smile back at me.

Even our daily walk from home to school was an adventure. The route took us through a market that came alive early in the morning and stayed busy all day. The bakers were there in the...