Seeing so much suffering in Ukraine, most of us feel impelled to do something. Making donations that provide humanitarian aid is an obvious and useful..

Pete Philipps — She was my first love. I was eight. She was my teacher, and normally that would be all there is to tell...

Pete Philipps — My first car went to Carnegie Hall—and that’s as far as it went the day I picked it up from the dealer..

Alma Flesch — Retirement and aging do not necessarily lead to detachment from the problems roiling the world. Many older people remain engaged, often passionately,..

Pete Philipps — That Sunday, for reasons he left unexplained, my father insisted on taking the streetcar to Villa Brandt instead of walking there, as..

Carol Blitzer — Thirty-five years ago I wrote a column for the Palo Alto Weekly entitled “No time for friends.” It was a rather sad..

 Joan Holtzman — Sometimes it’s important to remind myself of – and put down in words – the bright spots that light up what often seems..

We lived hundreds of miles apart, each of us anxious to stay as close as possible with the other. My dearest friend was in the..

Hours before dawn on August 8, 2019, I reluctantly nudged my sleeping wife and asked her to take me to the hospital. My breathing had..

Alex Ross — Alex, in a text to Joan, writes: What a great book (using “great” literally). I’m about halfway through and I don’t think..

Joan Holtzman — Hi everyone, it’s Henny Penny here, back with the same old message, but for real this time — “THE SKY IS FALLING”!..