God Don’t Make Junk
That day, I was Windexing my mother’s coffee table. It was probably a Saturday. My mother sat on one end of her hunter-green couch...
Fledged
The handoff took place at noon, inside our dim garage. Our neighbors, tense and talking fast, were in a hurry to get out of...
My Mother’s Eyes
The first time I realized that I look like my mother was when she was dying. She was 91, in intensive care, and her...
Annotated: A Dean of Students’ Email
Subject: A Matter of Safety
From: The Dean of Students
To All Students,
Late this afternoon we learned that five of our students — three men and...
The Sounding Board: Why Ukrainian Americans are Committed to Preserving Ukrainian...
A Ukrainian-American professor of dance, involved since 2014 in war relief efforts, opens a window into the generations-long struggle of Ukrainian independence and identity.
An Appointment with Mercy
When faced with the decision to euthanize a beloved pet, an owner’s obligation comes due. From the moment that animal entered your life, you’ve...
Did You See an Asian Man Hiking in the Woods?
While we had been in in the Adirondack Mountains at Tupper Lake since early June, it wasn't until mid-July when I could finally hike...
Hiking Boots
You were the Whore and the Beast of Babylon,
I was Rin Tin Tin.
Leonard Cohen
During the summer of 2012, my brother, Seth, and my father...
My Night of Fundraising
In the winter of my junior year at college, I found a squirrel. The squirrel was frozen in a block of ice on the...
This Will Be the Last Time
The very last time I saw Jimmy—the one who held on and whom I let go—he was not himself.
I had taken Winston, our dog,...
She Wants to Lead
Havana Club is a cavernous and windowless room, designed to make patrons of this popular dance venue forget about time as though they’re in...
When I Was A Child, I Knew My House Would Burn
When Mom was a little girl with too much on her shoulders—"more than any child should have to deal with, you've got it so...