Creating Space to Think
I’ve been thinking about thinking lately. Mostly, that we don’t cultivate the time to do it anymore. I used…
The Easiest Valentine You’ll Ever Send
It’s upon us—that annual event that sends us in panic to the store, wondering how we’ll survive it all.…
Seeing Your Shadow Doesn’t Have to Mean More of the Same
It looks like Punxsutawney Phil has seen his shadow. We’re in for six more weeks of winter. Sigh. More of the…
Finding Your Creative Edge
When I was an art major in college, a sculpture by Robert Maki was installed outside the fine arts building. It…
White Rose Love
My time at Wake Forest was transformational. In four short years, I learned how to balance a checkbook, footnote…
Predicting the Future
I wrote my first memoir in 5th grade. Memorably titled “All About Myself,” it was bound in a manila folder decorated…
The Invisible Monument
Maria Cienfuegos travels the Cuban countryside taking photographs of long-forgotten monuments. She has spent her photography career investigating the overlooked…
Knowing the Questions but Not All the Answers
I moved to Costa Rica to write the book that’s been roiling around in my head for nearly 15…
Our Mothers Map Our Lives
I have always been the crier in the family. Growing up, I cried every week when Gilligan and the…