In my hip hop class, we dance to a Meghan Trainor song whose lyrics are:“If I was you, I would wanna be me, too. I would wanna be me, too.”People perk up…

Each year, the University of Virginia's School of Nursing sponsors a writing competition for its students -- a chance to reflect on the career they've…

Growing up, I desperately wanted a pet. We lived in a tenement bordered by an asphalt driveway in the back and a concrete sidewalk in the front. Our…

Once, as I waited for my husband, Bruce, outside the door of a Trader Joe’s in Manhattan, a blond-haired man walked up and stood uncomfortably close to…

As we head into a new year, many of us will be looking for inspiration – to lose weight, add exercise or make other changes in our lives.Charlottesville…

In this age of alternative facts, almost anything can be up for debate. Take one obvious distinction – whether someone is dead or alive. That’s what…

This year, the world marked the end of an era, as the last video cassette recorder rolled off the assembly line in Japan. Here in Virginia, locals marked…

Before Earnest Hemingway, John Updike, or Breece Pancake, I read books written by Earl Hamner, Jr. His most notable titles, Spencer’s Mountain and The…

Snow slowly began to rise along the windowsill. Outside, the frozen flag lapped against the frigid pole, the rope clanged against it in the wintry winds.…

I look down at my paper that was once crisp and white, fresh from the printer, and now it is so covered with writing that I struggle to find space to…