Not going to lie, this seems like a viable career option. I start the day later than expected, but this is understandable when one...

The journey to the airport isn’t as dramatic as I expect it to be, which is disconcerting. My big ass backpack and I catch all of the...

We will begin  by saying that I don’t want to go to Paris. It’s for a lot of reasons, both practical and anxiety-related. Why am I...

When I was growing up, I had no idea that people traveled in August. Where I’m from, vacations happen in June and people spend their time...

As many of you know, last year sent me careening into an entirely new mindset and lifestyle. Gone was the overly-prudent-and-homebody...

Summer hitting us hard, at last January lingered on for about six months. Now, all of a sudden, we’re over halfway through the year. The...

June 12, 2008 It’s mosquitos swarming and the screen door slapping against the hickory frame as my body is stretching out of girlhood ...

Precious. In the bleak midwinter, we sat around the kitchen table and talked about Claudia’s upcoming birthday. Michael and I strove to...

Hermit Crab Hermetism There’s something in your sleeping breath that reminds me of a hermit crab gathering its courage to find a home...

Blurry and, yet, we look great Sometimes it’s hard to believe that it was only four months ago that I moved into a house with Craigslist...

Who would we be without our best friends? Had you asked me a month ago, I would have told you that I had been depressed for a few years....

Gideon, lost in snow As a poor, naive Southerner, I thought that we might see spring and put away our snow boots by the end of February....

Celebrating “New Bonds” One of life’s great pleasures is sharing a meal with friends. There’s something to be said about a bowl of salad...

Untethered The world is made of string, all held together, tangled, tripping though resting on quantum foam to make up quarks both...

When I was in college, I imagined that I would form friendships with a huge group of people, relationships I would effortlessly maintain...

Mucha adjusting to his new circumstances with his typical malaise. I’ve been in Boston a few months now. I’ve survived my first real...

Burn Wise Wood smoke cannot be contained, though persuaded to linger in the slope of your shoulder then visited by the keen talent of my...

My new playground The end of the year is upon us (thank God), and I must admit that it has been the strangest 12 months of my life. I...

Coming into my third week of full-time Boston living, I must admit that I’ve learned a lot. Between coming to terms with the fact that...

Getting ready for the wedding in a, yes, monogrammed plaid shirt. My niece gets up to no good in the background. Walking down the streets...