Fontaine-de-Vaucluse: Where the Waters Speak of Love

Reading Petrarch in Provence

On the Death of Friendship

Nothing lasts forever

The Conductor Who Knew How to Swing

A remembrance

Family Ties

The Black Car

Julia von Metzsch Ramos

Making Waves

On Keeping a Blog

A Farewell

Brazil by Way of Bach

The music of Heitor Villa-Lobos

The Price of Assimilation

Reverence vs. resemblance

Consolidated Ruin

“After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes” by Emily Dickinson

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Luis Alvaro Sahagún Nuño

Ancestral healing

Asteroid Hunters

The scientists and engineers who defend our planet day and night from potentially hazardous space rocks

Who Would I Be Off My Meds

Can weaning oneself off pharmaceuticals ease the cycle of perpetual suffering?

Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistanceby Laura Delano

Brown Wasps

“Writing in the Dark” by Denise Levertov

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Tiger Mom

At a forest preserve in India, a writer sees the world anew and learns how to focus her son’s restless mind

A Midsummer Night’s Stream
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A Midsummer Night’s Stream

American Carthage
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Echoes from the ancient conflicts between Hannibal’s city and Rome continue to reverberate well into the present

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