As we arrived at the marina last Saturday, a gloriously perfect day, I told Trevor that I wanted to learn all the nautical lingo. Trevor

Today is not the day for my words.   Dear world, listen to the uprising. Our babies are speaking to you. – Lisa Sharon Harper

Tired of circling my own block or the college campus again and again on my sanity-preserving walks, I invited my daughter to go with me

It was one of those mysterious, sudden impulses that came on me like a message from aliens: you must do crossword puzzles. It hit me

“All right, everybody. Can you hear me OK?” The Matriarch of all Elephants calls the Zoom meeting to order. “Blurb blurb blurby blurb blurb.” “Dolphin,

The media is constantly telling us that we are now in “the age of social distancing”—not the moment, not the time, not a few weeks,

Ugh, the media. We complain about it, yet we’re addicted to it. We don’t trust it, yet we imbibe its nectars—and poisons. We all have

I am delighted to share with you this conversation with my friend and colleague Steven Bouma-Prediger in celebration of his new book, Earthkeeping and Character:

It’s time once again to welcome guest blogger and advice columnist Pious Petunia, offering timely wisdom and incisively soothing commentary on modern romance. Dear Miss