On my way to work, I used to pass an old stone church that became an elementary school. A beautiful garden surrounded the school entrance. I often stopped and took pictures of the flowers in the garden: peonies, irises, roses, pansies, and marigolds....

"You may be standing, sitting, strolling or rolling by the alcove on Wylie Street, between Selman and Kenyon Streets, in the space known as Reynoldstown Alcove Memory Park, or RAMP for short, updated in 2020. It features an 1896 railroad map of the r...

You can get there from here, though there's no going home. Natasha Trethewey, from "Theories of Time and Space" In her poem, Theories of Time and Space, Natasha Trethewey describes her experience going home to Gulfport, Mississippi. Tretheweyâ€...

Many years ago, I saw a simple pen-and-ink rendering of a house. I immediately felt it was the house that would one day be mine—my family’s home. I immediately felt a connection. I wrote about it, had it framed at my favorite frame shop in my nei...