Ten years ago, a friend shared her desire to give up alcohol for Lent.... more

In the years after Spencer Toder graduated from Washington University in St. Louis, he noticed a familiar, depressing pattern.... more

Let’s see what my Republican senators, alleged champions of the Second Amendment, had to say after federal immigration agents gunned down another American in the streets of Minneapolis.... more

A few days before he delivered the weekly Friday sermon, the imam received a call from a distressed young woman.... more

Just when I thought we had become numb to state-directed cruelty and injustice -- that our outrage was spent, that we needed to look away from the burning embers of American democracy to preserve our ... more

My attention span suffered a significant self-inflicted wound last year.... more

Years ago, Barbara Finch wanted to channel her anxiety about an upcoming presidential election into something useful.... more

When a shooter burst into a study group and murdered two Brown University students and injured nine others, I was roasting a chicken, waiting for my son to return home from college.... more

For the better part of this year, my brain rejected the idea that my father could not get the care he needed at home.... more

I made an unusual fashion decision for Thanksgiving dinner.... more

Jacqueline Christy, directing her first feature and fresh out of film school, faced a tough call on set: Should she pack up her entire cast and crew from the alley in Tribeca, where they had a permit ... more

Amy Von Senden, 56, posted a sorrowful Reddit request recently about her dying mom.... more

Joseph Kosednar, a retired engineer, spent five years developing a speed-control pedal for a large jewelry-making machine.... more