CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD

When I saw the rioter sitting in Senate chambers in the recently vacated chair of U.S. Vice President Mike Pence yesterday, I was...

The queue of lorries on the M20 was several miles long at Dover port caused by its closure after France shut its border to the U.K....

My holiday season is subdued this pandemic year. Since March, when COVID-19 pushed its way into my life, I maintain a high anxiety level....

John Steinbeck's Acceptance Speech for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962: "The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's...

Cynthia Adina Kirkwood visiting Santa Claus at Macy’s Herald Square, Manhattan, circa 1961 Originally published in The New York Sun in...

My mother had been frustrated trying to get pregnant with a second child. I was her first. In desperation, she would visit her doctor. I...

Volunteers wait to be checked at a vaccine trial facility in Soweto’s Chris Sani Baragnarath Hospital outside Johannesburg, South Africa,...

Residents turned garden hoses on the flames near Obidos, hours after the October 2017 fire began in Portugal’s interior. (Photo by...

News of the vaccines lifted my heart as did the fireworks in Lisbon last New Year’s Eve. Two safe and highly effective COVID-19 vaccines....

I have been on the prowl for a flu vaccine. To no avail, I have made a few weekly visits in Portugal's Beiras to the village pharmacy in...

Environmental activist Catherine Coleman Flowers stands over a pool of raw sewage outside a home in White Hall, Alabama (Photo by Bob...

The artists, Hank Willis Thomas and Emily Shur, reimagined Norman Rockwell's "Freedom From Want", the iconic 1943 homage to American...

Tagan Ja’Nae Marie Drone, 5, died hours after testing positive for COVID-19. Distraught parents of a kindergartener, who died hours after...

The Joe Biden/Kamala Harris win sparked spontaneous celebrations around the U.S., including Black Lives Matter Plaza outside the White...

After the harvest in Ervedal da Beira, Coimbra district in Portugal We spread voluminous green mesh mats around olive trees to catch the...

Idaho Lieutenant Governor Janice McGeachin displays a bible and a handgun as she recites a line from the state Constitution in an Idaho...

Biden advocates clean renewable energy (wind and solar); Trump supports dirty old sources (oil and gas) (Photo by International Renewable...

Herman Melville, who created the monomaniacal Captain Ahab, could not imagine the extinction of the sperm whale. Nineteenth-century...

A team of 60 used slings and other equipment to help pull the whales off the sandbanks (Photo by Brodie Weeding/AFP/Getty Images) The...

Emma Robbins’ grandparents used to live in a traditional hogan like the one above, pictured with a 275-gallon water tank outside. In...