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On my way home mid-afternoon on one of the first really warm days, the windows of my Subaru were down and NPR’s “Fresh Air” was up. Terry Gross was interviewing Barbara Strauch, the health and medical science editor at “The New York Times” about her new book, “The...

Everyone always told me I had the most beautiful mother. My friends’ parents, my teachers. My boyfriends. “I look like my father,” I always responded. But on this late autumn afternoon, with the sun peeking through the thickening October sky beyond the window, I no...

I always knew I loved 7-Eleven, especially on my way to work, meeting up with my Good Morning America posse gathered around the coffee like cannibals around a cauldron. Mr. High-School Gym Teacher knocks Ms. Insurance Clerk’s purse to the floor to grab the last swill...

You tilted back your head to show me the blanched streaks on your neck pushing against the forest of your chin and the wayward white bristles you insist on plucking out. “There was no gray,” you said, “before I fell.” I came to find these white spots cover your body,...