I am on the brink of my first post-college job, my most illustrious achievement: my career as a staple puller for an insurance company....

It was the last week before finals, and I was sitting in my American Literature survey class in the Liberal Arts building on campus...

And the Patient is no help sorting through the details because he is unconscious and bleeding out in an ICU room.

Ten years ago, I’d taken a trip to Belgium to visit a good friend who was studying abroad. I’d been teaching English and Literature at...

I remember the loss of this friend in a series of others over the next ten years...

No matter who you are or how your life is going, sooner or later every adult person experiences something that is so pivotal...

Hungover, shirtless, wishing I would evaporate. I sat in the backyard on a chair, the California sun laying on me like a sheet. That sky,...

My friend Brian and I drove from Sacramento to Oakland to the Fox Theater to see DJ-musician Girl Talk, whose mash-ups...

This morning I don’t know what I’m even mourning.

Even the bus might have served as a warning. I don’t ride buses, and this was a rattletrap single-decker with flickery lighting...