We’re inhabiting a time when our equilibrium, life as we understand it, has moved onto shifting sand. In fact, with the proportion of...

I just looked at her while she shared her best hopes. I encountered a grace moment not long ago. A former student and I found each other...

I am ridiculously in love with poetry; I even write it when I meet a metaphor that won’t let me go . . . and I’ve had enough wine. I was...

Emily Dickinson wrote: Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at...

The tree pictured first showed up for me as an anonymous image meant to represent this holiday season. For years I’ve wanted to replace,...

. . . and there I was, doing it again and muttering to myself, “Well, that was a stupid thing to do. I can’t believe I did it again. I...

It was almost 2,000 years ago that this famous phrase was coined: “Home is where the heart is.” I believe this often-recalled thought...