A decade ago, Dan Harris, then a hard-driving co-anchor on ABC’s Good Morning America, published 10% Happier, a memoir about his balky immersion into the practice of meditation. The book…

A Quiet Place (2018, 2020, 2024) The third movie in the Quiet Place universe, A Quiet Place: Day One, began streaming on Paramount+ at the end of summer, which meant…

Every story needs a beginning and I’m convinced that Rhode Island has a way of turning every visit into a story worth telling. In 1997, my then boyfriend surprised me…

Photo by DavidMcClister Caitlin Canty is at home in Danby, VT, her newborn son asleep on her  lap, only a week old. “It’s a sweet change from Nashville,” she says,…

If you, like me, grew up on MAD Magazine, you have to go now to see the amazing exhibit currently showing at the Norman Rockwell Museum. If you never saw…

As with the ancient Greeks, I’ve always been a believer in fate and it tends to aim directly for me. A few weeks after graduating from college, I worked as…

Summer is a season with a soundtrack all its own. Is there really anything better than cruising up the Taconic, windows down and the stereo on blast or getting centered…

My favorite midsummer pastime has to be listening to live music outdoors. There’s something about the sun and the wind, the music mingling with the sounds of nature, the beautiful…

During the pandemic, masses of urban dwellers around the country transplanted themselves to more pastoral, if not more affordable, settings. Even now, post-pandemic, New York City inhabitants—more accustomed to concrete…