My mother’s experience of senior residential care was happy. She felt safe there. My sister became her daily visitor, sitting ...

Glorifying consumption | Life of privation | Safeguard bees. Mercury News reader letters to the editor for June 20, 2025.

Some would call the municipality’s pace of addressing this problem stately. Others would call it glacial. At one point, the ...

As a disturbing symbol of the extreme disrespect being shown Latinos in California, U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif. — a mild ...

They were rejected, but she got a letter from an editor who said she liked the “Negro” poems. When she had ... black sun—am qualified to enter the kindergarten of the new consciousness.” ...

At Guardian Angel School in Oran, April 7-11 was Letter People Week. As of that week, the kindergarten students had learned the entire alphabet. On Monday, April 7, each of the students (who had ...

It’s National Poetry Month this April. Is it worth celebrating? After all, poetry doesn’t seem to be doing much to alleviate the tension in our communities. Ask some of the middle schoolers I’ve ...

I am writing to you with a special poem that I have composed to commemorate the 15-year anniversary of the passing of Ernie Harwell, beloved voice of the Detroit Tigers. (Editor's note ...

every stamp I’ve licked and locked on my skin. For every darling I’ve mailed myself to. Rubbing shoulders with birthday cards, tax notices, divorce papers, bank statements. Rumbling down Interstate 75 ...

If I were you, and you were me, If he was she, and she was he, If we were they, and they were we, How all would view things differently. To live and strive for just one day, Feel hatred’s sting ...

Art can help us make sense of the world, and these moving poems about life offer a better understanding of the ups and downs we all face ...