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It can come abruptly like a hit-and-run ruining your evening plans or a bus running late when you’re ready to go But it can be so much more Think of it as a one-way hike down an unknown canyon whose end only you can know an...

Sluggishly, the lizard basks in the early sun, deftly shifting in and out of the shade to keep her body temperature on an even keel, as her blood slowly quickens. Masters of self-regulation, we sapiens still overheat and freeze....

Waiting for a cross light in Manhattan, I grabbed the drunken man in mid fall, holding him up with all my strength, his huge frame threatening to bring us both down in crashing ruin. For a moment I held him steady, propping him...

Liam, when we met twelve years ago at a non-profit organization’s Group workshop panel presentation on aging for which I had volunteered to represent men in their seventies, Where after someone from the community in his twenties...

My twitching eye was always landing me in trouble—shuddering at a co-worker’s sexy wife, or at offensive jokes, or when someone wanted an obvious answer to a question—their faces contorted with anger at my twitching—their words...

This is how it began. Sunlight glistened in the underside of the Silver Maple leaves, and shimmered in the serrated edges of the willowy Chinese elm trees. Strands of light encapsulated my sister’s long, deep black hair leaping...

and the boots of abandonment—stare at the holes in the bare walls—their chalky white insides exposed. What comfort is there for the deserted? Those imprisoned by love—those that tend the steel shafts inside their chests. How...