Culture is a slingshot moved by the force of its past

The wrong words are impossible when there are no words.

What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness.

A breeze shook rain out of new leaves onto their hair, but in their pursuit of eternity they never noticed the chill.

Scientific illiteracy in our populations is leaving too many of us unprepared to discuss or understand much of the damage we are wreaking on our atmosphere, our habitat, and even the food that enters our mouths.

I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.

A woman without a man -- a condition of 'manlessness' -- is defined as alone. But a single mother is less alone than the average housewife.