Articles by Valy Valy

For six months, a biker came to my daughter Hannah’s hospital room every day at 3 p.m., quietly holding her hand, reading to her, and […]

The University of Nueva Vista auditorium gleamed with polished wood and the scent of tradition, but all that faded the moment I saw him—my stepfather, […]

For two years, my house had been weighed down by silence. My wife Lauren and six-year-old son Caleb were gone, taken in a car crash. […]

The shooting of Alex Pretti did not end with the gunfire—it marked the start of a brutal dissection of a man’s life. In the days […]

Often overlooked in North American landscapes, the honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos) is far more than a simple shade tree. Native to the Mississippi Valley and […]

In the misty cloud forests of Southern Mexico and Central America, the Resplendent Quetzal glides like a living jewel—a bird as enchanting as it is […]

Minneapolis has been thrust into national outrage following the fatal shooting of Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse and U.S. citizen, who was killed […]

The entertainment world is mourning the loss of Pamela Salem, a distinguished actress whose career spanned some of the most beloved franchises in film and […]

Moving from New York City to rural Pennsylvania was supposed to give our twin daughters a better childhood. My husband Mason convinced me that being […]

For twelve years, I believed my marriage was stable and ordinary in the best way. I’m Claire, thirty-eight, a mother of two, and I thought […]