For years, my friend’s father asked me to recount his childhood escape from the Nazis. Why did it take me this long?

A sinking feeling on the subway, racing after a teen heartthrob and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s ...

Charles "Chico" Ballard would have turned 48 years old on Monday. More than 25 years after the Ohio State student's death, a ...

Has a journalist in an interview ever asked a doctor for a sample surgery? Most of the people asking artists, comedians, poets for samples forget that they have to prepare first. Samples discredit the ...

A new collection of illustrated story poems is told from the perspective of a boy who lived ... His book, "The Boy Who Lived In A Shell: Snippets For Wandering Minds." Thank you so much for being with ...

Gloria Yoder looks back four years to the time she and Daniel were waiting for the adoptions of Hosanna and Jesse to become ...

Cristina Roccati graduated from the University of Bologna when few other Italian women earned degrees, and she taught physics for decades ...

Black don’t crack.” “It is not that racist ideas and largely fake data are present in the literature,” Newman would later ...

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I’m constantly reminded of the final T.S. Eliot line in the Prufrock poem where he talks about lingering ... CM: Yes, now that you bring attention to it! Thank you. This is one of my first ...

Columbus police Assistant Chief Greg Bodker choked up as he described those thank you calls and the lasting impact Ballard had in his short life ... son would email her poems or a religious ...