Once I was old and glorious. Once my children held tightly together, little stars, all shiny and proud.

We head to Martha’s Vineyard in April for our work week at the rental cottage.

On a recent red-eye flight from Seattle to Newark, I sat up all night looking out from my window seat.

I moved to the United States from Brazil when I was seven years old. It was all one big shock.

The key ingredient in fireworks was invented in the ninth century by the Chinese to ward off evil spirits.