REBECCAPETTIT

It has been one year since we lost my Grandmother, Elinor Jones Pettit. I feel like this year has been one where the chatter and movement...

I stepped outside to walk my dog and was greeted by silence. There was no regular rumble of passing cars, no noise of neighbors, it was...

This past November, as I was teaching a class in Israel, I became suddenly and violently ill. Severe vertigo completely disabled me. I...

In J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Bilbo says, "It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road,...