Sometime around 2 a.m. I finally put down Karen Spears Zacharias’s A Silence of Mockingbirds: The Memoir of a Murder. Still, sleep would not come. My mind kept returning to the characters and the events, searching for understanding.... Read More

“The more I thought about it, the more simply holding a baby alligator seemed insufficient. It was this line of thinking that led me to the completely insane idea that I should try alligator wrestling.” When Amber Karlins’s mother... Read More

Martine Ehrenclou began to write The Take-Charge Patient: How You Can Get the Best Medical Care after spending time at a hospital with sick loved ones and seeing, she said, the difference in medical care experienced by those who... Read More

Stereotypes about welfare recipients abound in both the media and the public’s perception, believes author B. Morrison. But it’s not until someone is actually in the position of requiring that level of assistance that he or she finds... Read More

Imagine waving goodbye to your nine-to-five job—that world of expectation and routine—and setting off after dreams that thrill and fulfill you. In 1986, Andrew Hoffman did all this and more. He left behind a promising career in... Read More

As any reader of travel brochures knows, the Taj Mahal is a monument built by a grieving widower in remembrance of his beloved wife. Travel Channel viewers may be aware of more detail, like the fact that it was built in 1632 by the... Read More