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Dear Daughter is an award-winning podcast from the BBC World Service about love, life, family, and raising children. It is the brainchild of Namulanta Kombo, a mother on a quest to create a ‘handbook ...
On the 85th anniversary of Joseph Brodsky's birth, we revisit the exiled Nobel laureate who never stopped writing in Russian ...
I became penpals with a soldier. We met three years after and it feel like we were strangers. We married two years later and ...
Dad came back stateside on a hospital ship, which he referred as the ship of horrors, with hundreds of wounded men. The ...
Before long, I was typing everything: Homework. Term papers. The music and lyrics to “Hamilton,” which I wrote when I was 11 years old, and which were found by Lin-Manuel Miranda moments after they ...
Sophie Winkleman, who is married to Lord Frederick Windsor, opened up about her royal wedding, including her "disgusting" ...
An Aiken Marine gave everything nearly 20 years ago. Now, his family shares the letter they never wanted to write. “Dear Matt, this is how it’s been since you left ...
For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?
Another day, another apparent mass murder attempt by someone ramming a car into a crowded public space. This time it happened ...
Sophie Winkleman, who is also Lady Frederick Windsor, has given a new interview and admitted some wonderfully indiscreet details about her own royal wedding.
Q: I oversee a team of five and have one Jewish employee who takes off Jewish holidays, like Passover and Yom Kippur. I treat those holidays like I treat the major Christian holidays everyone gets off ...
Emma Bushee's sons were serving on six continents. At home, she waited for their letters — and tried to pray them home safe.