Ten years ago, at age thirty-nine, I stood in an eighth-grade Waldorf classroom in Minneapolis, lighting a beeswax candle. I placed my...

Thursday, December 6, 2007 was the third night of Chanukah, but I didn’t do anything that night to celebrate. I was completing my final...

It’s someone’s birthday and we’ve started the night at some Austin restaurant. We eat up and drink well before slipping away early....

I’ve never understood America’s loyalty to Thanksgiving turkey. In my experience, 90 percent of turkey served on Thanksgiving day is...

The day was a Thursday. So I traveled to New York City on an early train. Around me, conversation, newspapers, the sounds of business, I...

You make a to-do list at your kitchen table. Dave and Abigail are out and Scott sleeps like a seventeen-year-old, late on this Sunday...

It made me feel grown up to celebrate a one year anniversary with my first real boyfriend, despite the fact that I was barely fifteen. It...

If I’m going to die, I’m glad my week-old sister wouldn’t remember sitting together on the plaid sofa, or how I tried to avoid changing...

At 7AM, the physician came into the room and said they had to take my dad off dialysis. They did. His heart kept beating. My dad had...

You're on campus, fall wind turning your ears red, watching fellow students walk through a propped-up closet door, each one receiving a...