For 16 years, language arts teacher Aurelia Blake has been a tough and tender champion for local middle school students and their writing.

And that’s how childhood seems to me, a place more than a time. I still dream about certain things: the creek, the cherry tree in the backyard, the concrete front stoop that was a clean, if somewhat bumpy, slate for drawing.

David Spyridon’s nights are spent in a recliner. Sleep comes a little harder that way, but the position aids the work of his dialysis machine.

Gardens are lessons in rebirth, and a local garden center is exemplifying this truth in more than the usual ways.

Like a lifetime achievement award, Yellow Springs bestows the moniker of home ownership at the end of a person’s career, not at its beginning or mid-point. And why not? A person doesn’t own a thing just because a piece of paper says she does.

May 19, 2016 Bulldog Sports Round-up

A longtime area HIV/AIDS resource, Equitas Health, is expanding its mission to serve the full spectrum of health needs in the LGBTQ community.

Jude Walsh Whelley had never told a story to an audience before. But that didn’t stop her from entering, and then winning, February’s Story Slam.

The day begins with tree shadow, with bird song, with a rectangle of grey on the slanted ceiling that slowly warms to blue. The top of a spruce floats there, and the ghost of the crabapple cut down this spring.

Have a story about “life’s sudden twists and turns”? Tell it tonight, May 14, at Story Slam, YSAC’s Moth-style storytelling competition. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.; event starts at 7 p.m.