Yanamama

I wrote this essay for a scholarship application which asked what makes middle school special. I don’t know anyone who enjoyed middle scho...

A friend calls it separation anxiety, this restless casting about for obligations in the sudden absence of pressure. I have things to do, ...

Physics is the most magical of the sciences. If chemistry is the science of creation, and biology that of transformation, then physics is th...

I spent yesterday morning in a dingy beige government facility, waiting with a friend, E, for his parole hearing. He has been in a halfway h...

In a stack of old school work I found this story, written more than 20 years ago. It's not too bad, so I thought I'd share it here, ...

A trip to the store was just an excuse. I knew that as soon as I tapped the accelerator and my car jumped forward, as eager as I was to eat ...

Written 2007, revised 2015 My Darling Husband takes great pride in being a logical, reasonable, and efficient person. He's also, well,...