“We cannot lose what is our own, even if we throw it away.” —The I Ching One morning, while trying to light my pipe in the blustery wind at Lawson …

It has happened so often in my life—people thinking that I am someone other than the person I know myself to be—that I have come to believe in a parallel …

As I boarded the bus going west, a woman of about my own age, early 60s, smiled up at me from where she sat, curled up in the seat like …

Life was hard then. I was eating cold pinto beans out of a can that I had to open with a hammer because I didn’t own a can opener. Having …

Near the door that leads into the basement floor of Isabella Towers in East Knoxville is a tall, red candle that has burned steadily through the night, a large vase …