“The house I grew up in had the atmosphere of a dark bruised place. I do not know whether that was unusual in those times. My mother was quite pretty, and I think…

“Sarah, the mother of a friend, loves to gather the clan, drive with them to the beach, and spend a week each summer in ‘The Blue House,’ a five-bedroom, clapboard rental at Cherry…

“Every now and then, you discover a new artist and, through her work, a whole new way of seeing the world. I had such an experience when I came across the work of…

  “In the article in Pressenza, we learn that Swiss Re suggests six strategies for addressing climate change. Not surprisingly, we also learn that the Trump administration is not interested in any of the…

“When I first got into cartooning, I’m embarrassed to admit my goal was to become rich and famous, and to own a 1963 silver Jaguar E Type roadster and an ostentatious beach house…

“Quiet, unassuming, and marginalized—a country-woman from the mill village of Olympia, where she began and ended her life, Goff was only one of several women I knew there whose worlds were upended, whose…

“One day, though, I had an epiphany. I must have been about twelve or 13, and my classmate Doris had asked me over for Sunday lunch. They had no servants and her mother…

“Our persistent friendship continued despite the day ‘they’ separated us (or maybe because of that day). After all, who knows how the ill meaning or well-meaning choices of adults will ultimately affect children? That day—the…

“As a recreation therapist with a growing familiarity with AI, I initially dismissed its ability to understand leisure—that quintessentially human space between obligations. Yet after witnessing an algorithm generate hundreds of ‘weird recreational…

“When I was young, I believed that nothing ever happened to people in small towns. Only growth and pain. Life and death. I traveled around the world to discover that nothing ever happens…