“Having kids was her survival tool,” writes Luke A. M. Brown and Berthalicia Fonseca-Brown of Essie, the main character in their novel about a poor Jamaican woman who uses her physical beauty and cunning sexual wiles to build and... Read More
In "Go Father, Go Daughter", Pat Fahy, a middle-aged family man, tells his personal story of setting a goal and ambitiously pursuing it. Influenced by one of his children, he decides to train to become a long-distance runner. Over the... Read More
At ten years old, Rick Lenz witnessed a childhood prank go terribly wrong while at a Michigan lake. Lenz and his friend Dixie Thorpe had just changed into their swimsuits and were walking towards the dock when some older boys who... Read More
The theme of an anti-hero confronting his personal demons through self-exploration and repeated failure is a familiar one: it requires little searching to find a book or film that represents any number of flawed (yet somewhat likable)... Read More
The late journalist Nuala O’Faolain, (Oh-FWAY-lawn) was prized in her native Ireland for good reason. Unafraid of correlating political and private issues in her columns for the Irish Times, she trained her light on the daily lives of... Read More
These days, it’s easier than ever to know what’s happening in another country. News travels fast; most people have immediate access to the tragedies, the glories, and the daily trivia of lives lived on the other side of the earth. As... Read More
Born in the mid-fourteenth century to into an ethnic Chinese Han family, Confucian scholar and salt tax bureau manager Wang Tsong founded the Wang clan at KuHsien village and raised his family. Through tumultuous historical periods and... Read More
Health is a concern for every woman. Some women struggle all their lives to be healthy, while others seem to keep healthy without even trying. In "A Happy Healthy You", five professional women come together to reveal what they believe is... Read More