“Gruesome? Perhaps, but I need something of you with me, and this will have to do.”

How a son’s invitation to draw cartoons led to a sea change in a father’s life.

“What if I abandon them again by dying?”

“Like many women, I have been routinely harassed simply for looking the way I look, my boundaries violated both physically and sexually.”

“That’s why I picked a younger man; he wouldn’t do to me what your father did.”

“From spring to summer, we debated whether to tell our spouses, the harm we would cause by leaving them, the happiness we might miss if...

The last king of Hawaii said, “Hula is the language of the heart, therefore the heartbeat of the Hawaiian people.”

After her aunt died by suicide, a woman is given the opportunity to have a conversation that could be either cathartic or further devastating.

“Why was I so capable of helping other people in the exact manner I needed help myself?”

Two environmentalists fight about the fuel used in a romantic (but carbon-emitting) oil lamp.