Let It Shine

Light, from the Southwest’s high desert to the surface of Mars

Agelessness in Academia

Strapped

What I learned in India about the public good

Castles in Space

Much more than mere escape

Big Toddler, Teeny Slide

Playtime gets curiouser and curiouser …

My Kingdom for a Horse

Homo sapiens seeks equine companionship for work and pleasure

Money, Leisure, Death

What college students should be learning about

Get Real

Our thirst for authenticity

Going, Going, Gone

Time is money, but art is art

What Columbus Day Really Means

If you think the holiday pits Native Americans against Italian Americans, consider the history behind its origin

Above the River of Your Longing

Two new prompts

Casa Gorín

“The Purse-Seine” by Robinson Jeffers

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Island Royalty

A new biography of a Caribbean revolutionary

The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christopheby Marlene L. Daut

The Writer in the Family

The fiction of E. L. Doctorow gave a young man hope of connecting his father and his literary hero

Birthday Boy

“The Horses” by Ted Hughes

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Amy Wetsch

Life, magnified

The Weight of a Stone

Searching for stability in an erratic world led Oliver Sacks and other writers to the realms of geology

New Year, Old Year

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