I have always been happy that my birthday falls in the spring.

An informed well-educated citizenry is essential to a working democracy and holds tyranny at bay, so goes the paraphrase from Thomas Jefferson and others.

Barbara Bush made a great contribution by publicly talking about palliative or “comfort care” in her final days.

I shut my P.O. box and take my mail to the table to weed out the junk mail. Among the many catalogues is a letter from the U.S. government with URGENT stamped next to my address.

It was May 4, 1970 when the unthinkable happened. It’s preserved as a single searing image: a young woman, semi-kneeling before a man lying face down on the pavement.

On Dec. 8, 2017, I was fortunate enough to be asked to join a collective of Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School students and community members to spend 12 days exploring Cuba.