I had been an irresponsible custodian – not reading more than one letter in 30 years, not telling my brother about them, and not liberating this piece of family history from my closet and passing it on.Read More

Humans have been human for many millennia. Our gods, in many ways, resemble us.Read More

With Women's History Month approaching, I took the opportunity to do a little research on how the field of women's history began.Read More

It was fun to discover a convergence of two diametrically opposed characters that brought together two independent strands of my writing.Read More

The year started with an exploding chestnut. So much for my plans for the first of January.Read More

My end-of-the-year list has nothing new, stylish or currently popular.Read More

While looking at the Sargent paintings now on view at the MFA, I entertained a dual fantasy.Read More

This summer, I was on a mission to see how real places come across in fiction.Read More

Here are five biographies of families who were shaped by, and who helped shape, regional history.Read More

As we celebrate women around the world, here's a look at soccer-playing women from South Africa.Read More