From the point of view of ogres, fairy tales are for sissies. The heroes and heroines are all fluffy characters with perfect hair and pointy shoes, but the ogres! Man, we should pay more attention to those ogres! They have...

I was separated from my family when I was 10 years old. It was dark out. We had been celebrating Grammie’s birthday: aunts and uncles, cousins, a cookout on the big screen porch, a warm summer night. It had been...

No one deserves to be forgotten No one deserves to fade away No one should come and go And have no one know he was ever even here No one deserves to disappear . . ....

My 81-year-old friend had to go on high blood pressure medication two years ago. She’s never been on any medication in her life. Doctors all over the country are reporting increases in illness and in pain among the elderly nationwide....

The annual Pride parade in our area is a huge affair. Like a carnival and the Mardi Gras all in one, circus performers walk around in stilts, people throw beaded necklaces at the crowds, and there is much face painting,...

Love conquers hate. Prayer is powerful. Everyone is welcome here. We are all siblings. Be kind to everyone. Treat one another as you yourself want to be treated. For each and every person, new life arises out of the darkest,...

For many of the women newly elected to Congress, their first months on the job have been all about kinship. They wore white to their first State of the Union address, and encouraged other women in the Congress to do...

Actress and social activist Marlo Thomas created an enduring legacy out of a project called “Free to Be . . .You and Me.” The book and record came out in 1972 and has never been out of print....

On a sunny Palm Sunday afternoon, at the border between the United States and Mexico, world-famous cellist Yo-Yo Ma sat down with his cello, out in the open, and played excerpts from Bach’s cello suites....

Something like a knee-jerk reaction occurs when I talk about equality with people who have been assuming it means just one thing: being the same....