It can feel magical — traveling to see places and people from the distant past. A long-lost cabin on a lake, a friend who went on crazy adventures with you, the field where you spent long hours playing kickball. …

Deep in the heart of the sixth season of “Grey’s Anatomy,” there’s an episode that ends with a total girl power moment. After some high-stakes surgical maneuvers, the leading female characters get together for a rousing game of baseball. …

Jamie Zelermyer grew up in a world that was a lot different than what most kids experienced in the 1970s and ’80s. Until she was in sixth grade, her family was part of a Back to the Land enclave that involved radical politics, music, and communal living in and around…

Imagine you’re an astronaut on a spacewalk out there in the velvet-black, profound universe. In the middle of powering in some screws on a piece of robotic equipment, your left eye stings so badly that you can’t keep it open. Then the same thing happens to your right eye. That’s…

When life chugs along in a same-old, same-old way, it can feel like nothing is ever going to change. Until something blows in out of left field that makes you swerve into new directions. …

Galloping on a horse down a rain forest trail, a blur of lush greenery rushed by. I could smell the leather of the saddle, feel the mahogany brown animal breathing hard beneath me. Matching the rhythm of his body with my own, I focused on the pounding of his hooves…

Sometimes it can seem like life is nothing but a long series of good-byes. Maybe you part ways with somebody that you thought would be your partner, or friend, for life. Maybe you’re laid off from a job, and you were so proud of what you accomplished there. …

Years ago I had occasion to travel to Shanghai. I had a free a trip to Hong Kong, covering an event for a news journal, and finagled an extra few days to visit the mainland. I was doing some research for a film script that was set during the era…

Media Ecologist Stacey Lynn Schulman Shares Concerns and Solutions — Propaganda is something that Stacey Lynn Schulman thinks about a lot. In addition to her role as a research expert who’s well known in the media business, Stacey is trained as a media ecologist. It’s a profession that isn’t widely known, but essentially it involves the study of how media…