For me, February 18, 2011, is a time of not yets. In five months I'll be engaged, and in fourteen I'll be married. But not yet.

Once inside, I immediately take off my wool coat. This coffee shop is always bursting with bodies hunched around tiny round tables with...

Ten years ago, you’d have found me in my Charlottesville art studio, nestled within a pink building memorialized by Dave Matthews...

When my sister Carol opened the door on Thursday, January 20, 2011, the morning of her 47th birthday, she was as bald as our father...

Lately I’ve been thinking more about what I refer to as the “secret side” of writing...

Thursday, the end of the first week back to school after the winter holidays and we still aren’t in the swing of the morning routine...

What Does it Take for a Heart to Stop? On December 18, 2010, my brother died of a cardiac arrest inside Mirdif City Center, a mall in the de

Two weeks before Thanksgiving, she’s obsessing about who’s coming, what they’re bringing. Irritated that they haven’t gotten back to her....

When our third child was born in 2004 we decided that I would become a stay-at-home mom. That lasted about two days. Having studied classica

Lately, your brain’s been fogged-in. Could be the medication or the accumulated hours of a life spent, but the only thing you’re sure about.