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Our annual interfaith dinners bring together Muslims, Jews, and Christians. After all, hate can’t survive across a dinner table we build together.

The dip and plunk of paddles, the ripples on the lake. For Dad and me, fishing is a beloved family ritual. Our biggest catch? Time spent together. 

With her gold-tipped fountain pen, fanciful flourishes, and after-recess story times, my fifth grade teacher indelibly shaped my career – and life. 

When a born-and-bred New Yorker prepares to move back to the big city, he discovers that Mississippi has made itself at home in his heart.

I yearned for my childhood summers by the lake. With my son, I have a chance to revisit that enchantment.

Family dinners are a powerful means of connection, anchoring, and belonging. For our writer, Cajun country crab nights brought a sense of kinship.

Proust had his madeleine. I had a juicy red watermelon to transport me to beloved summers past. 

In the garden, there’s only one thing that multiplies faster than rabbits. Read on – I’m spilling the beans. 

Used to playing the expert, a corporate strategist trades her pantsuit for a wetsuit, starts surfing, and learns that being a novice is exhilarating. 

Traveling without a plan or guidebook may seem radical. It’s my way of preserving the serendipity and romance of adventure.