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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…

My father gave me my first car, a 1965 Ford Fairlane. Although I had my driver’s license, I didn’t know out how to back up, park, or merge. To be honest,…

It’s graduation season, and millions of young people are collecting diplomas – but they’re not alone. More and more older Americans are wrapping up a…

It’s been about a year now since a quick stop at the hardware store to pick up some duct tape and grass seed turned us into part-time poultry farmers.Not…