What Kobe Bryant’s Dear Basketball Can Teach Us About Legacy
It’s been about five months since Kobe Bryant died in a fatal helicopter crash that killed nine people including his thirteen year old daughter...
The Secret Life of an Old Maine Shoe
The shoe didn't fit, but its worn condition told me that it had fit someone once, some woman to be more exact; but that...
Pastries in the Backcountry
I was in the Grand Teton National Park, carrying bear spray, a bell, and a set of instructions memorized in case I ran into...
Will Work for Textbooks
Jack was breaking the rules of our arrangement the first time he told me he loved me. I was twenty-four years old, and I...
Diastema: The Spaces Between
I’ve had a sizable gap between my two front teeth for my entire life, and for most of it, I’ve wanted to get rid...
Echolocation
When I was 13 and my parents were doing okay, we had a house with pillars. It was just a split-level ranch, but the...
Sphincters I Have Known and Lost
“You want to hear about all the times I’ve had tubes shoved up my penis?”
There’s a sentence I never thought I would ever speak...
Kinship
On the evening of Valentine's Day, 2019, Marisa, Arianna and I gathered at Kinship where Marisa worked as a hostess. She had just left...
Let’s (not) Talk about Sex
My girls were seven and three when we decided to raise chickens. It was a group effort until the moment the cute phase was...
Coming of AIDS
Dedicated to every angel in America—then and now.
Coming of age, as I did, during the 1980s meant that I came of age in the...