There comes a time in everyone’s life when changes are made that affect one’s lifestyle. In fact, from infancy, our lives are affected by change. It’s easy to reflect on our own trips ...

Maddy Posner  When they’re not writing, the Swarthmore Creative Writing Program (CWP) students are dancing. Or, well, this may have been a one-time ...

I asked AI to write a column in my style; it was a bad parody. Time to check how AI is doing. It's gotten much better and shows surprising innovation.

We’ve all got a story (or two) to tell. Yours could earn you money. Chicken Soup for the Soul is accepting stories and poems ...

Comedian Tig Notaro was sure a film about the couple reckoning with mortality would make a rending but also affirming film.

Glorious snow! We moved to northern Michigan in part because we wanted snow. The first few years we got buckets of it. I ...

T he poet and writer Edgar Allan Poe, who was born this month two hundred and sixteen years ago, was famous in his life time, and that fame has only continued to grow. Through his ...

Our expertly researched article explains that cats purr for a wide variety of reasons, some of which will surprise you!

Narrated by David Oyelowo. On the shores of Botswana’s Gomoti River, Africa’s three Big Cat families have made themselves at home. Each has carved out a space to raise their young, while ...

Lion, leopard and cheetah parents attempt to co-exist and raise their cubs in Botswana. Lion, leopard and cheetah parents attempt to co-exist and raise their cubs on the shores of Botswana’s ...

Thomas Merton expressed this vision in his poetry, novels, essays, devotionals, and autobiographical writings. We present to you this collection of poems honoring the Virgin Mary written by Thomas ...

A woman who adopted a cat soon noticed that her dog had started changing her behavior—to become oddly catlike. Melyssa Sobczyk, 33, lives in Palm Desert, California, and is the proud owner of ...