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Read the obituaries if you haven’t lately: A Broadway actress who would have stormed stages up the ladder to fame, won two To..

She’s slightly obsessed with the metaphysical. We sit under a tree by the lake one night. Do you ever think, she says..

is very much like a page in a novel-- it is your surroundings at any given moment: it is the atmospheric conditions that envelop..

To Owen: Sometimes the pen inside me stirs up memories of words and friends and rooms and tears and things said, and things left unsaid--..

When I was hired as an English teacher at Elphick High School just a few weeks after I graduated from college, I wasn’t quite sure what to ma..

I I must admit... there have been times, in this class, when the emphasis you have placed on the importance --the necessity-- ..

She told me so many things over the course of those few weeks, at that table by the window where I would so often find her sitting alone. So many t..

I can’t be the bearer of bad news. I just can’t bring myself to do it. Even the thought of it just...destroys me. It’s the e..

Not too long ago, I learned to think of my life in terms of the people who are in it, and the times I share with them. I began to see ever..

I know this might make me sound insensitive-- but I would like to express my belief that thank-you notes are overrated. My mother told..