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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.

The place we grew up and the places we have lived have imprinted themselves on our psyches, but is it possible that have we left something of ourselves on the land?

How the brain memorizes and how the heart memorizes are two different processes. One requires effort (like converting Fahrenheit to Celsius), the other, does not. What do you carry in memory and why?

When a fifth-grade boy is run over by a powerboat and comes back to school injured, a classmate who is drawn to heal him has a dream.