This August Sturgeon Moon brought with it a powerful, deep partial lunar eclipse, obscuring 96% of the moon. I wasn’t able to witness the eclipse,

Shortly after our move from Hawaii to Virginia, my eldest daughter, Jenny, and I went on her second-grade class field trip. It was a beautiful

Shortly after our move from Hawaii to Virginia, my eldest daughter, Jenny, and I went on her second-grade class field trip. It was a beautiful

  As a young girl I vividly remember sitting on the seawall near my grandparents’ summer cottage in Marshfield, MA, adoringly gazing at the illuminated

The morning-shift nurse wrote her name and the date on the dry-erase board in my husband’s room at Johns Hopkins almost a year ago. I

My college degree is in Liberal Studies with a concentration in English Literature and Psychology, so there was a lot of writing involved. I was

  In recent days, it was my privilege to be joined in the Avalon’s Stoltz Listening Room for a conversation with author Melanie Kaplan and

I had one of those unexpectedly meaningful encounters this week. My girlfriend and I were at Methodist Hospital. While I was with the doctor, she