These personal stories reflect on some of life’s most impactful experiences.
Sticking your head in the freezer is a shortcut to drying your tears. Seriously, what happened to wiping them? If you google shortcuts, it produces 779 million results in under thirty seconds. Everywhere you look, ...
A whiff, a touch, a gentle breeze, someone’s child, a couple at the coffee shop holding hands, a distant memory, someone’s vacation home, pictures of travel in South America, a grant denied, a gift received, ...
It’s that time of year again. No I’m not referring to the holidays. I’m talking about something much more exciting – the NFL playoffs are almost underway. For me, this is the best time of ...
It began in the spring of 2012; I started noticing a change in my balance along with memory issues and headaches. As a working actor by profession, I am normally required to memorize lines quickly ...
The Raven’s Story Once, it is said, there was a great dark forest that grew here, a forest so dense with thick, tall trees that the light only shown through at a certain time of ...
With each bite of Halibut Duglere, I see whores in El Salvador, bandits in Bangladesh; I see a boy in Cité Soleil, squatting in an aluminum shack. Made of dried yellow dirt from Hinche, baked ...
My heart was saddened last night, mainly because of how I saw reactions emerge and words fly. My friends, we have a long, long way to go. We need to love individually and learn collectively. ...
I still remember the panic I felt when I took the letter from my landlord out of my post office box at the East Hampton post office. My usual daily routine to cleverly park on ...
It starts off subtly. It almost sounds confused. An incongruent medley, tough to discern at first what it might be and what it means. There is a sort of clumsy humming and a low-level pitchy ...
Marie recently retired from a lifelong career in education. She now organizes excellent adventures for the boomer girls to enjoy. They went to Paris this past Spring. It was fabulous. Caroline caught a show at ...