“Grace Notes: Reflections for Now” defies easy explanation, which makes sense as defiance is part of its nature. Midway through “Grace Notes,” a group of young black men, members of the Yale chapter ...

If you want to cause a stir, put two experts on the social graces together, and bring up the subject of thank you cards. You know, those little notes your mother told you to write that you thought ...

Grace Perez-Navarro’s career at the OECD began unexpectedly — as many life-changing events do — with a quick, off-the-cuff decision she made on an otherwise routine day in the early 1990s. On that day ...

In music, composers sometimes add interesting, ornamental embellishments to their compositions called grace notes. These often-unassuming grace notes add interest to the music we hear. Flourishes.

I hate clutter, although you’d never know it by looking at my desk. This morning I had some free time, so I decided to go through the piles of notes and scribbles scattered around, which usually ...

The title of “Grace Notes & Anvils” at the Odyssey Theatre refers to two divergent aspects that those in mourning will inevitably encounter. “Grace notes” are those individuals whose acts of kindness ...

WASHINGTON (RNS) Late on a Saturday night in 2012, I received word from my sister in Mississippi that my mamma had passed away. My home was silent as my wife and two boys slept upstairs. I was reading ...

On the morning of October 2, 2006, Charles Carl Roberts inexplicably entered a quiet Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, and shot 10 Amish girls execution-style, killing five of them. Perhaps ...

WASHINGTON — Late on a Saturday night in 2012, I received word from my sister in Mississippi that my mamma had passed away. My home was silent as my wife and two boys slept upstairs. I was reading ...