Ellen Smith remembers the bracelets and locket her mom wore to church every Sunday. “Love, Bern” was engraved on the back of each one, and Smith, as a child, assumed they were an early gift from her ...

Writer Abby Slovin of Jersey City was inspired to create her new serial online literature project, “Letters from Cardboard Boxes,” when she was cleaning out her late grandparents’ house, The Jersey ...

And for more than two decades, her daughter has been taking it out. By Genevieve Kingston In the back of my closet is a small cardboard chest with brass handles and latches that has followed me to ...