My retirement didn't come with a farewell party. I'd been working full-time for decades and then the work just kind of fizzled out.

This is a short NF piece about a memory I hold of special memories I have of my mother reading Kipling's "Gunga Din" to me as a small child in Brooklyn ... a unique memory all our own.

Brunswick Civil War Round Table celebrates 15 years of educating and enlightening the community on America’s painful internal conflict.

After the three-hour drive from our third-floor walkup in Brooklyn, we turn onto a short, unpaved track and I get my first glimpse of the shimmering lake. I study the six tidy, white cottages on a grassy rise facing the water. My heart beats a

Midnight. The harrowing, brutal thunderstorm ends as abruptly as it began. The power goes out as an eerie quiet falls over our neighborhood. The TV snapped into blackness and the darkness felt total...

The idea of ‘rosy retrospection’ hinged on some 2023 survey results that reported that roughly half (48%) of Romanians polled believe that the communist regime was a good thing for the country.

Learning to hope again and respecting each generations’ causes helps us face our fears and make a difference

My husband died when I was 46. His life insurance plan was a lifesaver and allowed me to develop a more long-term financial plan for our family.

One summer, we sat on the stoop in front of my best friend’s building and her mother taught us to crochet.

The room is a whirlpool as the medics move purposefully and do things with scary equipment.

It can be hard to make friends when you're older, especially in a new place. The author describes how she overcame loneliness in her new community.

Ellen Acconcia says she wrongly leaned on her oldest daughter for support before learning how to be a protective parent without her husband.

She resented caring for her widowed mother, but she had no one to share the responsibility with as an only child. She put her mom in a nursing home.

“The stars of amusement park shows around the world, have long died before their time.” –National Geographic I heard some chatter on X (Twitter) recently, where folks were commiserating about whether the natural world was mad at us, considering some