Rjukan, a small town in southern Norway, experiences six months of darkness every year due to high mountains blocking ...

“There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.” That lesson was reinforced to me this year at Dubai International Airport. About the Author ...

who once said that she did not like to be called a hero because “even an ordinary secretary or a housewife or a teenager can turn on a small light in a dark room.” That metaphor had literal ...

Perhaps there’s a night light in one corner, illuminating a few toys and part of a wall. But your closet door is cracked open, and the darkness beyond is thick, and seems almost infinitely deep.