In a world where most of us live in apartment buildings with noisy neighbors, the search for “perfect silence” is the holy ...

Oh, how I love to walk at night! The darkness diminishes what my eyes can see, which means vision cannot bully my other senses. So for a little while my senses of smell and of hearing can rise to ...

This summer offers a couple of significant “first times since”: It’s the first time since the recession really hit, causing many to pull their belts taut, and the first since a new administration ...

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There are many advantages to living in the country rather than in a town. One is the quality of sounds one hears. Even during the daylight hours, the sounds that echo through woodlands and across ...