It all happened in the blink of an eye. I was standing in line at a BART station outside San Francisco waiting to take the rapid transit...

My mother-in-law, who turns 90 in August, understands the paradox of aging. She suffers from a long list of ailments and chronic pains,...

A shadow is there, but in another sense it isn’t there at all. It has a shape and a tonal intensity – yet it’s as formless as a thought....