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Even small adjustments in one’s life can pay big dividends. For our essayist, simply casting aside his shutters revealed new glimmers in his day.

For one young girl growing up in India, learning English as a child meant adopting a new worldview. Today, she’s rediscovering her culture.

Pitch-perfect weather, crisp mornings, blue skies, and russet-tinged leaves. Those are just a few of the reasons we sing the praises of September.

I went to Seville, Spain, to break out of my mundane routine. My experience taught me to step out of my head and into the moment.

From walleyes to fireflies, capturing summer memories steeped in nature.

When she learned about the birds in her backyard, a writer discovered that happiness lives right under your nose, if you know where to look.

An unexpected encounter on a Florida beach opened my eyes to societal definitions, and misconceptions, of beauty.

In one magical, midnight phyllo-making session on the island of Corfu in Greece, I learned that all I kneaded was love.

Twig by tiny twig, a blossoming birder tackles her “fixer-upper” property and transforms it into a “tiny state park” buzzing with wildlife.

Here comes the ice cream truck! As a handful of writers sharing simple childhood memories can attest, summertime is a season steeped in nostalgia.