Shoes not only protect our feet, but help define who we are. Texas boots, dancer's slippers. There was an old woman who lived in a shoe. She had so many children she didn't know what to do. When I was ...

To understand someone else, the advice is to walk a mile in that person’s shoes. But the shoes aren’t the way into another person’s existence. I need to get inside that person’s experiences. But how ...

Tyleah Betances let out a small sigh as she slumped on a chair, the tension in her shoulders visibly easing. Her trip to prison — or, rather, her character’s trip — offered a much-needed respite, a ...

The 2024 presidential election certainly reflected the polarized state of political landscape in the United States. As has been true in many recent elections, about half of us are unhappy with the ...

are taught to “love thy neighbor,” to “walk in someone else’s shoes,” to be kind and to help others in peril. All of these teachings seem elementary, lessons learned from fables and fairytales in our ...

The recent coronavirus outbreak, and the fear surrounding it, reminds me of a story I heard. It was based on an event during the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic. Earl was a hard-working, family-oriented man ...