Dear Dr. Steedly, Belatedly, I thank you for your generous letter, and, more than that, for the opportunity to read your beautiful, scholarly dissertation. It is not only the overlap of our commitments. It is the authenticity of your "class notes"...

I caught an Uber at 7:15 in the morning to go to the house of a dear friend where we were meeting to have breakfast before we headed to the National Mall for the Women's March on Washington. The Uber driver had already taken three carloads of women t...

Burning your way to centre is the loneliest fire of all. You’ll know you have arrived when nothing else will burn. Mark Nepo I have been working on letting go for a long time. I choose words of the year like deciduous and surrender. I spend time...

1 : falling off or shed seasonally or at a certain stage of development in the life cycle <deciduous leaves><deciduous scales> 2 : having deciduous parts <maples, birches, and other decid...