Sarah Angle
By Sarah Angle:
Our Blue Period
When clinical depression strikes a marriage, the cracks are long and deep.
People with clinical depression are wired differently. In a neurotypical brain, mood-regulating neurotransmitters, such as serotonin, noradrenaline and dopamine, carry signals from one nerve cell to another. Read More
Closing Accounts
As the money runs out, hard choices in elder care
My grandmother wasn't really living; she was just surviving. The person I remembered, cherished and respected was vanishing. And the most painful and saddest part of her life had become the most taxing to survive. Read More
SNAP Judgments: College Graduates Dependent On Food Stamps Are On the Rise
1 percent of food stamp recipients have a graduate degree, a number that’s tripled since 2007. Read More
Booking to Denton
In downtown Denton, in an old opera house painted purple, Don Foster nurtures his passion: Recycled Books. His bookstore is musty. The handmade bookshelves are rickety. The pale yellow linoleum floors are stained and cracking. This three-story historic building in … Read More
Fighting AIDS in Texas
In 1983, Jamie Schield went on a camping trip with a friend to Great Smoky Mountains National Park. But his friend was out of sorts; he was tired, out of breath and worried about the rash developing on his chest. … Read More