Mythic Quest

Why not take the seat directly across from the famous French philosopher?

by LaDoris Hazzard Cordell

Was I a woman of letters, or only a girl?

by Merrill Joan Gerber

I have plenty of tattoos. You just can’t see them.

by Katie Mauro Zeigler

My simple mistake changed everything.

by Kirstin Chen

And here’s what I think we all need to do right now.

by Michelle Vasquez

On leaving a big life decision up to chance.

by Mary Poindexter McLaughlin

30 years after stumbling through a lost academic quarter, I officially graduated from Stanford University.

by Matt Rodgers

Something about ‘having work done’ makes us uncomfortable. It shouldn’t.

by Joshua Korman

I'd lie down in traffic for my Cardinal cap. Or would I?

by Wayne Raffesberger

We worked for the New York Times in Moscow during the Gorbachev era. We look forward to a day when information flows freely in Russia again.

by Philip Taubman and Felicity Barringer