The darkness never felt so ominous in me as I drove away from my 18 year-old daughter 15 hours away from home. Now is change. Being now...

Right now, for me personally, is a time of looking back. I'm cleaning out five decades of accumulated memories, emotions and identities....

Yanking on two corners, in one motion, the star quilt unfurled in the sky and settled around my shoulders as the air breathed out of its...