I had spent years rehearsing anger like a script, convinced that if I ever saw my father again, every unsaid word would finally explode. Instead, I watched…
Betty Reid Soskin’s life defied the idea that history is something that simply happens to us. Born in 1921, she moved through segregation, wartime labor, the civil…
When we finally played back the footage, the story I’d written in my head shattered in seconds. There was no stalker, no careful saboteur—just a neighbor’s kid,…
When the divorce papers surfaced, they didn’t just end a marriage; they punctured a carefully curated myth. The Palins had been projected onto a national screen as…