Your personal question will illuminate what’s most important to you — I have a friend, the poet, scholar, and leader Laurie Patton, who asks her students “What is your one true question?” She intends, I think, to help them find the place of their deepest curiosity. The question that comes up for them over and over again and that can never…

This morning I took out my recipe for challah and gathered the ingredients from my cupboard so I could prepare the loaves we will eat at sundown tonight. Soon I will measure the flour in a heap on my counter, dig a well to add in the honey, yeast, and…

The standard cancer narrative didn’t work for me, so I set out to discover my own — Here is what happens after the biopsy. Your phone rings. Someone tells you that you have breast cancer and should see an oncologist and a breast surgeon as soon as possible. At the first visit, if you have a man with you, the doctors spend a lot of time reassuring…