My parents were very alert people, writers who valued the fundamental rights of humans. The arts took the place of religion in our family...

I was born on August 18, 1988 to a timid mother and a drug-addicted father. My father was in the picture for the first six months of...

After trying to have a child for fifteen years with no success, my parents had grown desperate and immigrated from Britain to the state...

As the last born in a family of six siblings, I don’t remember much of my childhood until the death of my father in 1997. When my mother...

I was much more scared than I was thrilled when we got the call to come to Jewish hospital where someone was dying of chronic heart...

I’m a native New Yorker of the Upper East Side, born in January of 1956. My parents gave me a lot of freedom, and I took advantage...