You can take the girl out of Iowa, but good luck taking the Iowa out of the girl, especially when it comes to pig love.

A grandmother's dress, extracted from its sleepy attic domain, opens into a world of Italian family memories.

Once a promising pianist, the author "graduated" to verse, with key life lessons learned along the way.

The 41-year-old author had a vision, but put it in her back drawer, until it came to life.

The author's father is getting married at 78, and the impending change elicits a flood of thoughts and memories.

For an American who spent vital years in Rome, nostalgia is less abstract than it is a kind of calling.

The story of a dog often has much in common with the story of a human life and its passages.

Mother's Day is powerful day when it triggers a flood a memories, and with it a sense of loving loss.

Mulling over a return to poetry takes you back in time, some of it informed by Rome.