‘To The New Year’
Everyday Poems

‘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 just going about business as usual, January 1st marks the beginning of something. The start of a new calendar year, new bills, new paychecks, another school year, birthdays to celebrate. We are hopeful on December […]

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News & Culture

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 this in anger on a Wednesday night, the same day it happened, and decided to wait before publishing. My gut reaction was strong. I thought about this tragic story obsessively for a few days because […]

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Hello from Japan Japan: A place for chopsticks
Travel

Hello from Japan

Here I am sitting on the famous Japanese bullet train (Shinkansen). Just a few weeks ago, I was at home thinking about what exciting things waited for me in this country. Tuesday will conclude two weeks of travel in Japan. While some sights and customs turned out to be what I expected, there’s so much […]

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Party outside for your health
Moments in life

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 of summer requires a celebration. Even on the sunniest days, it was just too hard to think that a new season was coming, but finally it’s July and the weather is fabulous. The Science of Summer […]

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What keeps a couple together for decades?
Moments in life

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 a tremendous history both in their lives together, and separately. I won’t get into all of it here, except to share a part of an interview with my grandfather. They spent 68 years together and […]

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