“It’s absolutely perfect!” I could never have designed a more peaceful place to recover for a few days after major traumatic event....

Fire and gratitude. These two words now define my days. Two words intimately woven together - until now, a foreign composition. I am...

He told me where he came from. “That’s a pretty name for a town,” I said. “Maybe I’ll visit you there someday.” Elizabethtown. It’s been...

My grandmother always carried a small transistor radio around with her, and to the day she died, it would be on her bedside table next to...

My grandmother became eligible for her Screen Actors Guild card at the age of 80, but she was famous before that - known primarily for...

They’re everywhere. Caravans of families in cars, on planes, in hotel rooms and rented homes, in Grandma’s basement, sprawled out on...

I've heard there is a device you can affix to a car that only allows it to start after someone blows into a breathalyzer to make sure...

A year had passed since I had seen him. Now tonight I was meeting my father in Union Square for dinner. New York City props you up like...

My career as an eavesdropper started early. I single-handedly ruined my own belief in Santa and birthday should-have-been-surprises on...

Divorce was a dirty little word in my upbringing. Woe was she who bore the scarlet letter of shame. And then it happened to my family....

There are many things I believe would make my life perfect. But I’ve narrowed it down for the Genie in the Lamp. It’s not winning the...

Flashback to the fashion-challenged 90’s (though not nearly as terrifying as the neon splattered 80’s) and you’d find me charging through...