During this back to school season, I took a look at a favorite book of poetry, Teaching With Fire: Poetry That Sustains The Courage To Teach, edited by Sam Intrator and Megan Scribner. "I, Remember" is in that book. "I Remember," a ...

I am thinking about the day after we arrived in Miami almost three years ago. Relocation. Part of being in a new place is not knowing where you are.  Another part of being in a new place, is when you are staying in a suburban La Quinta nea...

I sat at the bar and started to check Facebook when a fashionable middle-age man sitting by himself started a conversation with me. A few minutes later, an immediately fashionable middle-age woman, a tipsy socialite, returned from the restroom and j...

As a woman living with Turner syndrome, I know gender is a particularly complex, fluid, and amazing thing. Chromosomally speaking, typical females are XX. I am XO. My genetic make-up is a phenotypic wild card. Most XO's are miscarried before birth...