‘When I think of this past year, the song in my head is: lately it occurs to me, what a long, strange trip it’s been! .. Through Q&A interviews, we’ve also brought in experts like Deutschebank’s Karen Weaver, whose predictions about the mortgage crisis proved truer than even she wanted; historian Annette Gordon-Reed (on Sally Hemings),and journalist Robin Gaby Fisher, who spent years chronicling the fire at Seton Hall University. We also weighed in as the Presidential race tightened, reporting from the Conventions and live-blogging the third debate.

By Patricia Yarberry Allen
It is hard to find something that is good for the butt, brain biochemistry, balance both physical and spiritual, bra fat, back fat and burning off [...]

Six a.m.Christmas morning: My two sons and daughter in law  were off to Long Meadow, Massachusetts, where they would spend the rest of the holiday with my daughter in [...]

Here’s what I remember about the long ago time of being a young married person living in New York City at Christmastime.  I remember giving my heavy winter coat [...]

- by Chris Lombardi
It’s a voice I hardly remember not having heard: the writer in the edgy science-fiction anthologies, the voice cool as ice, the material borderline radical. Not a [...]

Kandahar candid:
Veteran reporter Sarah Chayes left NPR in 2002 to live and work full-time in Kandahar, Afghanistan, after the fall of the Taliban government. After three years of rebuilding [...]

Elevating with the human voice: One of WVFC's own voices, poet Elizabeth Alexander, will present an original poem at the Presidential Inauguration next month. Alexander, who attended the 1963 March [...]

                               
PERIAPT AND HU-KWA
She bought the tea trolley at auction along with other piecesthat took her fancy, mostly Chinoiserie.  After the diagnosis,she placed [...]

By Elizabeth Willse

Two
years ago, Jessica Lange collected portrait photographs she had taken
of her children, to be assembled into a book as a gift for her
family.   The book's designer, Sam [...]

On Friday, WVFC readers in Philadelphia (or willing to travel there) can meet noted boomer photographer  Deborah Willis, who will be signing copies of her new book  Obama: The [...]