The Transformation of Jennie Heckenlaible by A.M. Kirsch

I discovered that I have more than the five senses taught in elementary school when I began teaching neurology.

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Before we return to our regularly scheduled program (On the Mysteries of the Senses), I’d like to tell you a story about how I took leave of my senses earlier this summer.

This is the fourth entry in the “On the Mysteries of” series. I’ve always been a sensitive soul and accused of being overly emotional, but it runs in the family.

What Killed Amy Winehouse? The answer might surprise you.

It all began in 1984 when I read a Scientific American special issue on neurobiology titled The Brain.

My last story included mention of how someone like me, with informally diagnosed dyslexia, might cope with a life spent writing professionally. If you’d like a peek behind the curtain, here’s your cha...

After Sarah’s father died, we cleaned out her family’s home and found her mother’s keepsake from 1946. She would have been eighteen at the time, and something about the French paper dolls caught her e...

Tennyson wrote In Memoriam A.H.H. in 1950, after his young Cambridge friend died unexpectedly. The lesson from line fifteen of Canto LVI haunts me nearly every day.

Advice on dealing with back pain is endless, and as Sarah points out, her back is different, and no, she doesn’t want to try my routine.

Thinking back on how I sat in elementary school, I may have had back pain since Grade 5. What I’ve done to cope evolved as I learned more about human anatomy.

Our bodies, like our twenty-four-year-old microwave, are showing signs of aging. But our microwave is showing us that aging isn’t always a bad thing.

Race and social status weren’t something I thought about while growing up surrounded by only white faces.

I’ve known four Gregs in my life and learned something important from each of them before we lost touch.

I bought a couple of self-help books twenty-five years ago, and they helped me navigate my course through troubled waters. As I get older, I’m discovering I have more in common with my parents than I ...

After a lifetime of watching my partner dread her regular screenings for breast and cervical cancer, I found myself doing the same.

It was an important lesson for everyone on both sides of the camera.

Becoming visible wasn’t something I set out to do when I transitioned—it just happened.

I like to think of myself as an activist, but activism exists on a spectrum, like gender and sexual orientation.

As we begin the new year with short days (in the Northern Hemisphere) and battle seasonal depression, I want to share some of the most joyful moments of my life in the hope that you’ll look back on yo...

In 2022, I was asked if I’d write five short book reviews on a theme related to my book, Murder of an Uncommon Man.

By the time the band R.E.M. released “Losing My Religion” in 1991, it had been ten years since I lost mine. I remember it happening, like so many “Light Bulb” moments, as I was standing at the front o...

If you’re wondering how I got my start in writing, as soon as I learned to print, I wrote my first story, “The Cat and the Bat,” on a 3 X 5 index card.

Like the green sea turtle, I began my life as an omnivore and moved in steps towards an herbivorous diet. The first steps were driven by health, but the last were ethical. Transitioning gender echoed ...

I’ve avoided writing about this for many years, partly because I’ve feared separation from my family on the other side.

I watched Jane Goodall’s final words on Netflix last month, and although we disagreed on several things, like her belief in reincarnation and hope for an afterlife, we both believe that hope is the an...

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Trump’s new executive order targets what he describes as the spread of a “divisive, race-centered ideology” at museums.

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“The only men in the women’s restroom were the cops,” Kalaya Morton said.