On a recent grocery run, my son, Jack, asked me to play Neil Diamond's "Beautiful Noise." Most 7-year-olds ask for a Disney or Minecraft soundtrack. Not Jack. From the time he was 3 years old, Jack ...

Songs can help demarcate this chapter of your life: It’s a way to mark time, to keep one period of time from bleeding indistinctly into the next. By Melissa Kirsch I am putting the finishing touches ...

The highlight of receiving my first phone wasn’t the promise of complete privacy, but the ability to download my favorite tracks to listen to whenever I pleased. Though long gone are my days of ...

This song caught my imagination the first time I heard it. Adele is an incredibly talented vocalist with a rich and haunting voice. The song’s image is getting older, looking back and wanting to hold ...

I don’t know about you, but music moves me. Literally. It makes me move. I’m frequently caught dancing in the aisles of the grocery store while listening to some song playing overhead. Folks passing ...

I am no DJ, but if you know me then you know about my "Serotonin Songs" Playlist. Serotonin is a hormone that stabilizes mood and overall happiness. Currently spanning almost six hours long, this ...

Now that spring break is over, it’s officially countdown time to graduation. To cope with my varying emotions about growing older and entering a new era of my life, I’ve been curating a graduation ...

Sometimes I wish I had gotten the gay college experience I thought I would have – “experimenting” with girls until I figured out that, hey, they weren’t experiments at all. Instead, I figured out I ...

The metal cattle guard hits with a loud thump, introducing miles of bumpy clay-red dirt roads that bring me closer to my ...