“Daily Portrait Project” artist Julia Kay talks about how to handle the flow of personal information online, in a week when things go badly wrong.

This past weekend saw the cable TV premiere of a movie about animal behavior expert and autism advocate Temple Grandin. WVFC contributor Tamar Bihari writes about watching the film with [...]

As I write this I am looking out of a window in an air conditioned (!) Barnes & Noble in Houston. I have just seen a crow.  Once again [...]

I remember everything, or at least the things that matter. I remember every pore of his skin, the encysted bump he had on the back of his head, the way [...]

The questions of children never fail to reach to the center of things. I realized this anew sitting at my table answering the letters of a friend’s eighth-grade science class. [...]

One day I woke up and learned, at  62 years old, that my significant other,the love of my life, was having an affair with his ex-wife. I immediately threw him [...]

Today I met my sister-in-law and told her that it was great to see her, as I hadn’t seen her since Christmas. She looked at me and said, “What are [...]

I find myself today in a foreign land, a threatening land, a land of anxiety and of disorientation, a place where I must relinquish control, a place I will call [...]

This week our January Poet-in-Residence, Lisa Russ Spaar, the much-published and much-honored winner of the  2009 Library of Virginia Award for Poetry and Director of the program in poetry writing [...]

Late November
On a Tuesday night, a couple of weeks after having moved into our new apartment, I found myself taking a swig from a wine bottle while balancing atop my [...]