Wind and Grace
General/Column December 30, 2019
The winds are back, as is the memory. My five-year-old daughter asks, “Will there be fires?” I look at her…
Learning to Hold One’s Breath and Other Uncomfortable Things
General/Column August 19, 2019
The house temperature at 4am. Attempts to keep quiet after stepping hard on the blunt, plastic head of an LOL Surprise…
Enough is Enough
General/Column September 29, 2017
She’s wearing that red sweater again, I think as my daughter sashays through the room in her favorite 35-year-old red…
Pessimism Crossroads
General/Column August 15, 2016
It’s bedtime. I steer my daughter into the bathroom to brush her teeth. She is whining about how she didn’t…