‘To The New Year’
New Year’s Eve holds a lot of promises. Whether you’re hoping to complete your resolutions and hoping for big changes, or
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On defining yourself: ‘Throw Things to the Flood’
What makes you, you? People tend to compare themselves to others at different stages of their lives. Sometimes these comparisons
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Destroy history and you destroy humanity
It was pretty alarming to read that ISIS destroyed the Temple of Bel in Palmyra, Syria, and killed an archaeologist
Two more people killed and we can’t stop watching, but…
Two young journalists and a woman they were interviewing were shot on live television on August 26, 2015. I started writing
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Get an angry call from the IRS? It might be a tax scam.
A few months after last year’s tax day, my mom told me that she got a call from an abrasive
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Honoring Grandma: Parkinson’s Disease Research Now
When I was about nine or ten years old, my grandmother came to live with us. I had never met
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Hello from Japan
Here I am sitting on the famous Japanese bullet train (Shinkansen). Just a few weeks ago, I was at home
‘Words and ideas can change the world’ – R.I.P., Robin Williams
“Twenty-six years ago, you played a game with a little boy down the street. A game with drums.” (Jumanji, 1995)
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Party outside for your health
If you’ve lived through what feels like an endless winter haze (like we’ve seen here in the Northeast), the beginning
What keeps a couple together for decades?
For years and years and years, I kept saying that I would spend some time interviewing my grandparents. They have