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A woman discovers she has an unusually high percentage of Neanderthal genes. What if all races go the way of the Neanderthals? A humorous look at where we are going, where we have been.

A hot air balloon flight is a mesmerizing lesson on the physics of love and the physics of sound.

Suitcases too heavy to lift, reservations cancelled. The man in the Ray-Bans, the compassionate reservations clerk, may never be seen again but their kindnesses are not forgotten. So many of us traveling together for just a short time. Who’s sitting next to you?

When bats invade a pregnant young mother’s house while she is alone with two children on a stormy night with no electricity, she learns it is easier to be brave as a unit.

Why is it so impossible to see ourselves as we really are? Always striving to be better, to improve? Two friends discover that sometimes it requires a look back from the future to see what was always true.

Five heifers have disappeared from a Virginia farm and are on the lam; underdogs we root for, they are enjoying their freedom on borrowed time. If you are an American you owe the democracy you enjoy to another group of underdogs, who fought for your freedom against all odds.

A writer receives a smug, unnecessarily cruel rejection and learns not only to separate herself from the judgment of others but to pass that gift on.

When a young woman rewrites a blind man’s sign where he sits on a street corner asking for help it becomes clear that words have power, and the right words change everything.

Alone in a crowd is still alone but a lesser lonely. At a dockside concert it becomes obvious that an invisible energy connects us—something that we need as much as the food that sustains us, or the air that we breathe.

When you adopt a dog, “Come!” is a command, but “Stay” is a request that can only be honored for a decade or so. Willingly loving what you know you will lose is the paradox we were born for.