Poet and author Charles Ghigna shares the story of a poem he wrote after waking up to his infant son's babbling over a nursery monitor.

“I like the people, and I like being a normal person in the workplace. My blindness doesn’t really make me stand out,” he said. “It just makes me another person on the team.” ...

I believe in “doing unto others as you would have them do unto you.” Please reprint the poem because, to me, it’s a treasure.-- JOANNE IN DELAWARE DEAR JOANNE: I agree the poem is a treasure.

So, if your home doesn’t get much natural light, don’t despair. The right colours, textures and lighting scheme can transform even the darkest of room. And sometimes, as Monks reminds us ...

Expectations: We have expectations that things will happen in a certain way. Often, however, life doesn’t match our expectations: The caterers overcook the prime rib at our wedding; our best ...

“And that poem became ‘Killing Me Softly.’ I had felt that he was singing about me and my life. I went to see him, a person I’d never heard of, and I felt that he was reading my diaries.

“Flanny, who runs Largo, encouraged me to have musical guests ... the period where I fell in love with music. So much of life doesn’t have a punch line, and in music you can be more ...