WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. - Carrie Coon lives right on the edge - of overwhelming sadness, of righteous fury, of whatever ...

Carrie Kahn is NPR's International Correspondent based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Kahn's reports can be heard on NPR's award-winning news programs including All Things Considered, Morning Edition ...

I saw a photo of an author I admire recently, and she had no hair. I worried she was ill, so I immediately investigated. She had cut off all her hair and had done it for good reasons, she said.

I don’t normally tackle controversial issues, but today I’m going out on a limb. Baths are better than showers. I don’t care what my husband, Peter, or my mother and father have to say on the subject.

Our cat, Felix, has turned into an excellent little traveler. “What do you do with your cat?” we are invariably asked when we tell people we are headed off to Mexico to spend the second half ...

followed by “22 & 91.” Then I could put a single candle by each age and simplify the whole complicated (but mandatory) candle-blowing-out procedure. To read Carrie’s entire column, subscribe to the ...

They make the best chocolate cake ever, so I offered to bring the cake. Carrie Classon's memoir is called "Blue Yarn." Learn more at CarrieClasson.com.

“My grandmother lived to be 100 and outlived all her old friends. So she made new old friends. By the time she passed, many of her friends were closer in age to her children than to her, but she ...

“Aren’t you Karen Carlson?” the manager asked. “No. I’m Carrie Classon.” The two bakery employees looked at the cake. “We gave someone the wrong cake,” the young man announce ...