Suicide is scary and messy and exhausting, Anna Mehler Paperny writes in her new book. And we need to be far more honest about it

I had a house, a husband, and two children. I wanted more

He is a settler; I’m Onkwehon:we. Our love was a process of unlearning the bad love we’d been given

For a long time, I was the only Black biracial person in my family. My relatives didn’t always accept that we shared different experiences

First I lost my job, then I lost my confidence, then I lost my voice

How words kept my grandparents connected during the Second World War

Working with Médecins Sans Frontières was my dream job. I quickly learned humanitarian work is not so straightforward

The Camino de Santiago trail has drawn millions of people with its promises of absolution, discovery, and healing

The Wrinkle in Time author shaped my ideas on nearly everything, from family to illness

Socrates and Plato helped me realize that charting the future with a chronic disease means embracing ambiguity