CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD

“The Mosquito Coast” film tells the story of an obsessive inventor who, fed up with consumerism and the American Dream, takes his family...

"I ain't never gonna be scared no more. I was though. For a while, it looked as though we was beat. Good and beat. Looked like we didn't...

I whacked half of my 42 trees with a chestnut stick, I combed some branches with a plastic fork nailed to the end of a stick, and I spent...

"The Problem We All Live With," a Norman Rockwell painting, depicts Ruby Bridges, 6, on her way to an all-white school in New Orleans on...

This piece was first published in the Western Daily Press of Bristol, U.K. on July 6, 2000. CBS news had labelled Britain a battleground...

This piece first appeared in the Western Daily Press in Bristol in the U.K. on August 1, 2000. I needed milk . . . and an escape from the...

This article was first published in the Western Daily Press in Bristol in the U.K. on the 14th of February 2001. “They’re playing this...

A solidarity bank account has been created for the victims of the fires in Oliveira do Hospital, Portugal, managed by the municipal...

Una semana depois as chamas devoram 520 milhoes de hectares em Portugal, as pessoas ainda estão em estado de choque. Todos perderam algo...

I thought that I was safe from fire moving to the edge of my village, Fiais da Beira in central Portugal. Still, the October 15, 2017...

“Imagine a singer with the virtuosity of Joan Sutherland or Ella Fitzgerald, the public persona of Eleanor Roosevelt and the audience of...

Poet, author, teacher, film critic and arts activist Morton Marcus (10 September 1936-28 October 2009) The following piece was first...

Musician Tom Petty (20 October 1950 - 2 October 2017) #TomPetty #FreeFallin

What will happen as we tune out or tune down the world around us with headphones and earbuds and earplugs? Will we lose the ability to...

"Nighthawks" (1942), an oil on canvas by American artist Edward Hopper The following piece appeared in Deadline, a publication of the...

“Plato holds that commonwealths will only be happy when either philosophers rule or rulers philosophize: “How remote happiness must...

“Educating Rita” (1983) Julie Walters and Michael Caine; screenplay by Willy Russell A 27-year-old hairdresser from Liverpool strives to...

"They say my music makes dogs howl, that it wakes the dead and hates the living. But I don’t hear it that way, and neither do my cohorts....

"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old time is still a-flying. . ." - Robert Herrick Or "Carpe Diem," as the Robin Williams character in...

“Let’s not get existential, Angel. I’m not talking Camus’ The Stranger here. I’m talking about having a body to wrap my arms around at...