A Neti pot looks like a little ceramic genie lamp. You fill it with warm saline water (distilled water only)...

An indoor-outdoor cat who actually looked both ways before crossing the blacktop, Sis was quite the huntress. Her combination of...

In 2017, when I was teaching second graders music at Woodstock Day School, a seven-year-old got up in front of...

I not only loved the playing – some incendiary shows – but the traveling, riding shotgun, and talking deep into...

I spent a lot of childhood time around devout Christians and was captivated by bible stories, often rendered in picture...

I knew what kind of power the word “hippie” carried in my grandmother’s world, a world receding, while another encroached....

Pete was a renowned raconteur, a lifelong teacher and volunteer. His early years included late nights in Harlem in the...

I tell them about the dramatic demise of apartheid. How revolutionary Nelson Mandela went from serving 27 years in prison...

I have begun performing in front of living people again.

The novel's voice was like my inner, truer voice – desiring similar things: connection, adventure, appreciation. But unlike me, Nin’s...

Prepping for fatherhood in 1997, I finally felt deeply connected to humankind's technological adolescence, a revolution that would engulf almost everyone...

The presence on the Inca trail was sentient, and I was her guest, but I daresay she did not care...

By the mid-Seventies, I’d already learned some math and a fair amount of grammar from Schoolhouse Rock, which had debuted its...

The “Lost Cause” would have you believe the Confederates fought for freedom from the urban North, likened in Lost-Cause mythology...

He was seated on a pickle bucket, too, in shorts and a drenched white tank top, tirelessly executing polyrhythms like...

Unbeknownst to me, I was in the last wave of artists who could enjoy low overhead, good food, a reasonable...

As Ulster County enters phase four of the pause, I am beginning to see a time when I will finally...

An old house comes with stories. Although we’ve lived in Big Blue, our 1910 Victorian in Phoenicia, for 18 years,...

Like everyone, I have been chagrined, schooled by Mother Nature, of which the coronavirus is a part. You got plans?...

I’d let myself go. But I was so in love with my full-time caregiver gig, I did not care. While...