I was watching the sun rise for the first time in my life. I had grown up in Utah, where the Wasatch Mountains tower over the eastern...

They say 40 is a big one. The threshold of middle age? Maybe, if we’re lucky...

As Mom barreled up 95 North that Tuesday towards Maine Coast Memorial, I realized this was only the second time I visited Christine.

I thought so much more would happen to you (warning: this type crops up often and isn’t warned about enough)

We are sitting on the Brooklyn Bridge. I tune the slide of my whistle to his guitar, meanwhile twilight rolls turquoise waves against...

"China! China!” they erupt (but it actually sounds like, “CHEEE-NAAA! CHEEE-NAAA!”) They scream this from across the street...

Slightly before dawn, I’m awoken. Not by the usual hungry cry of my infant, but rather by a dream. I am lost somewhere in the woods,...

On this warm spring morning, I’m drowning in a miasma of wedding planning for a wedding that won’t occur until later in the year. But you...

I had just moved from Chicago the previous summer. At the time, the heat was high and the Mississippi River was low...

Ten years ago, I thought I knew who I was. I gave every appearance of knowing myself, who I was, what I wanted, where I was going...