Tracing a family's history and values through home spaces.
A musical tour of sentiments about ownership.
Looking back on an out-of-control period of life illuminates the source of stability.
Remembering the transformation of objects in a time of mourning.
On family rituals as occasions to pass down heirloom memories of joy and sorrow.
Being born again into a new identity yields more questions than answers, with a need to proceed.
Ten lessons to treasure heading into life after fifty.
On discovering the weight of the sacred meal.
On falling in with the wrong crowd after a misstep.
How mundane details met audacious hope, in the round, on December 31, 2000.
Reflecting on privilege and the manageability of death by natural or unnatural causes.
Learning through all five senses at a home away from home.
When the complexities of life after community living show up in the produce section.
Remembering friends whose presence brought a sense of rootedness, even in their diversity.
A meditation on the life and death of a friend who called upon others to care.
Life, confession and memory in the endless moment of illness.
On the hope of carving out a path that leads home.
Finding hope in the middle of grieving an unexpected loss.
On shaping a life that will honor the memory and the suffering of those who have gone before.
On the loss of love letters in a technological age.
On the interaction between the stories on the page and the stories stuck between them.
Lessons from a high school production of Our Town.
On parenting in the wake of a husband's suicide.
The story of an encounter between young and old.
A game that hasn't skipped a generation yet.
Reflecting on the relationships that make local shopping the best bargain.
A journey from bedside reading to the grocery store.
The journey toward a local food diet.
A short lesson on listening to and appreciating children for who they are.
Remembering the pedagogy of Mrs. Schrager.