Marc Kelly Smith has bronchitis. Yet the 76-year-old poet still drove three hours this morning from his home in Savanna, ...

This week’s poem, by James Brasfield, offers a dream-like meditation on a grandfather, memory, and an ever-shifting sense of ...

On the walls of the Grace Cossington Smith Gallery, imagery and words collide in a show celebrating photographer Juno Gemes ...

I asked him to be my flower grandpa, and that became such a big part of his recovery," Rachel Powell said of grandfather Bert ...

My grandpa's dementia made conversations unpredictable, but I learned to embrace his reality — and it brought us closer.

A bride asked her 95 year old grandpa to be a “flower boy” at her wedding and he proudly walked down the aisle after almost ...

This year's winner in NPR's College Podcast Challenge is a letter to a grandparent that grapples with health issues including ...

I lost one patient unexpectedly, another predictably and another soon after that. Each time, there were things to do: write ...

This version of "Caedmon’s Hymn" shows how Old English evolved. It also features early use of a punctuation mark that readers ...

Pa is a cheeky and playful person. He taught me how to joke, negotiate, heckle. His warmth is his immeasurable wealth My grandfather, who I have always called Pa, is dying. He grew up working class in ...

Tumultuous times create heightened, often complex, emotions. It can be hard to voice or even identify our feelings when faced with war, illness, worry, or great changes of any kind. Poetry offers many ...

A San Francisco judge said that throwing the killer of “Grandpa Vicha” in jail would have a “poor impact” on the violent attacker as she revealed her decision to let him walk free. Judge Linda Colfax ...