This I Believe: New England The Public's Radio

Dying, of course, is a universal phenomenon.

It’s no secret that we live in a world with deep and wide divides.

Imagine yourself as a high school English teacher trying to inspire your students to grapple with the complex nuances embedded in Shakespearean literature.

Empathy – real empathy – is a mysterious phenomenon.

Here we are, right smack in the heart of another New England winter. For some, this stretch of months with early sunsets is filled with dread -- frosty...

The nineteenth century novelist Joseph Conrad once wrote, “My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel—it is, before all, to make you see.