He was peddling produce along coastal towns in Connecticut when he fell in love with the neighbor girl, Annie. She was a few years younger and still in high school. She’d walk with her friends in the morning, and he’d drive by in his 1932 Ford Roadster and give them a lift. The country was […]

What is this thing called love we’re celebrating today? And why don’t we have more words for it in English? The Greeks have four. We’ve got metaphors for love, such as “You’re the apple of my eye.” And we’ve got words that represent love. Think “passion” and “fervor” and “zeal” and “food.” Food is love, […]

On Aug. 21, 2014 I saw his friend request and private message on Facebook. “Hi. It’s Charlie. Remember me? We used to ride the bus together.” I remembered him all right. Charlie and I grew up together in Sterling, N.Y. He used to pull my ponytail and try to tickle me on the bus from […]

WASHINGTON — Sharing bacteria in the operating room normally is a no-no but in a novel experiment, researchers are giving babies born by C-section a dose of presumably protective germs from mom’s birth canal. We share our bodies with microbes — on the skin, in the mouth, in the gut — that help keep us […]

Heather Clark’s son, Lukas, died in 2013, when he was just 7 months old.Clark donated her baby boy’s organs – including his heart, which went to Esther Gonzalez’s young daughter, Jordan Drake.Years later, Heather Clark heard Lukas’ heartbeat again.It was beating inside of now-4-year-old Jordan’s chest.“That’s your baby,” Gonzalez said, as Clark held the stethoscope […]

NEW YORK  — On the field, the four-legged fur balls of the Hallmark Channel’s Kitten Bowl III were all business. But off? Well, let’s just say there were some impurr-prieties dogging these feline paw-thletes. “Sometimes we get into an issue or two. They tend to like to really delve into the catnip, and that type […]

Chocolate is one of life’s guilty pleasures; it’s one sweet treat that we simply cannot resist. There is rarely a person that doesn’t feel satisfied by closing their eyes, taking a bite of a velvety smooth piece of chocolate and having it melt on their tongue. February brings with it the romantic tradition of giving […]