Jennifer Gardner woke at 6:45 and girded herself for the grueling day ahead. She’d intended to get up earlier, but chemotherapy and a phalanx of other pharmaceuticals had again zapped her...

Gene DeFelice was 19 and reading the newspaper in his parents’ Dedham living room when a radio news bulletin shattered the Sunday afternoon quiet. The Imperial Japanese Navy had bombed Pearl...

It was the day after the first of four northeasters pummeled Martha’s Vineyard last March. I was on my daily commute that took me on Lagoon Pond Road and past the shuck shack where bay...