June 27, 2014 was the benefit gala at the Oakland Zoo, with that gorgeous 70-something blues singer in red kimono and black jeans and...

I know exactly where I was on July 11, 2014, and I have the ticket stub to prove it.

It’s fair to say that some of the photographs that have been taken of my children over the years have inevitably become more indelible than

Tomorrow is my ninth birthday. I am a girl.

"I’m in Michigan where raising one’s right hand, as if swearing to tell the truth, and pointing with the left is common practice..."

"On April 23, 2014, I was five months shy of ziplining in Costa Rica and becoming Steve’s fiancé, discovering that I’m too claustrophobic.."

"I am at work in the basement of the university library, texting my mom. Tech office detritus lurks in corners: old keyboards..."

I'm channeling my inner Audrey Horne today. "Do your palms ever itch?" That is the status Facebook says I made on April 9th, 2014...

"On March 28, 2014, three items dominated the news: Liberia, Texas, and Ukraine. Other than Liberia, which saw the first cases..."

First day of spring in Missoula, 42 degrees. I’m 26, and I live alone in the edge-lands between argument and aria: the doomed couple next...