I struggled growing up in poverty and without my father in my life, even though I knew he was alive. Later, my life took a turn for the worse, and I...

My husband and I pulled into a rest area to eat lunch on our way home from a trip. An older woman sat near the restrooms, holding a cardboard sign saying,...

I stood outside the hospital room where my father lay dying. As tears ran down my cheeks, relentless, crashing waves of grief threatened to crush me in a flood of emotions....

I have fond memories from my childhood. It was great, but it also had challenges. I have five siblings, and I am the oldest. Conflict was ever-present between us. But we...

A year ago, my husband and I moved to be closer to our two daughters. In making this move, I retired from my job as a professor. I had loved the...

Fall has always been one of my favorite times of the year. I have good memories of being outside with my dad in early fall. It is a beautiful season —...

In India we rarely see snow. So when I visited Dallas, Texas, in the United States, I was excited to see a snowfall. I wanted to walk on the snow, but...

In college, I had a job working in a forest, setting up boundaries for large entomology study plots that needed to be measured and oriented precisely so that all the plots...

In 2016, my wife of 53 years suffered a stroke. Memory loss and balance problems reduced a once vibrant, active, social, travel-loving woman to someone who needed help with even the...

I enjoy teaching mathematics — a subject that some of my students don’t like. I try to teach them using methods that are interesting and fun. When Philip saw that the...