Danny Heitman

The author of ‘How to Catch a Mole’ returns with autumnal meditations on aging, change and a life lived with fingers in the soil.

A former park ranger found herself with an unlikely regular visitor.

After Hurricane Katrina, my Aunt Eunice returned to find all of her food spoiled by the power outage. The only thing she salvaged from her freezer was a small suet

For many years, our family has lived on a city lot circled by oaks and pines, sycamores and hackberries, hollies and a thicket of bamboo. Hemmed in by a horizon

That’s what I learned from writing the ‘In Memoriam’ column.

As the longtime dean of LSU’s Manship School of Mass Communication, Jerry Ceppos recognized how deeply online culture had changed the way people connect. He devoted a good bit of

An essayist on the Down East coast of Maine finds the numinous in the familiar. She seeks out what she knows, reassured that it remains.

While I was planting a gardenia this month, my shovel struck a stray brick from an old patio that was done away with long before we moved in. In the

One of my favorite authors is Alan Lightman, a gifted writer who also happens to be a physicist. Lightman’s background in science inclines him to assume there’s an answer for

In her crib and on her wedding day, there was nothing for me but to love her.