"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...

I was going to visit an old friend. He’d grown up in a junkyard out West and when we first met, he was...

It’s another beautifully unpredictable day in the city by the Bay and I’m ready for it. 

My Uncle David, who was a children’s author, was born on a leap year: February 29, 1940.

It’s a brisk evening. I’m standing at the front desk of the Hampton Inn in Selinsgrove Pennsylvania, my first job after graduating college..

I didn’t expect to inaugurate the new year with a week in the hospital for my heart. Until January 2024 my heart was just a literary trope,

My journal entry for January 25, 2014, reads: One of the great things happening this month is the timber work we’re having done...