Music has always been an important part of my day. Whether morning, afternoon, or evening, it is usually playing in the background, a companion to

As the children returned to school last week, I found myself thinking about my own education and the many different forms it has taken throughout

  First light on the Chester River feels like a well-kept secret. Recently, Jim, Jenna, our nephew Joe, and I embarked on a crabbing experience

This August Sturgeon Moon brought with it a powerful, deep partial lunar eclipse, obscuring 96% of the moon. I wasn’t able to witness the eclipse,

Shortly after our move from Hawaii to Virginia, my eldest daughter, Jenny, and I went on her second-grade class field trip. It was a beautiful

  As a young girl I vividly remember sitting on the seawall near my grandparents’ summer cottage in Marshfield, MA, adoringly gazing at the illuminated

The morning-shift nurse wrote her name and the date on the dry-erase board in my husband’s room at Johns Hopkins almost a year ago. I