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Not long ago, I read a book called The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry. I wasn’t a huge fan, actually – the protagonist got on my nerves – but one thing about it did catch my [...]

Some mothers remind their kids to take a sweater or eat their vegetables. Some mothers email their kids links to articles about lack of reproductive rights for women in Central America. You can [...]

Saturday I rounded up some of my favorite people and saw a performance of Romeo and Juliet in honor of my homeboy William Shakespeare’s 452nd birthday (also, coincidentally, the 400th [...]

I am not one to mourn celebrity deaths. Still, Prince’s passing yesterday really affected me. It was a mix of loss of my youth, the death of someone who seemed so vital, and the mourning of [...]

It is such a wonderful day today, full of sun and promise and things bursting from the ground. I don’t want to be biased, but spring in my neck of the woods could be the best thing ever. [...]

Having a book out in the world is really the gift that keeps on giving. A friend recently flagged for me the fact that THE SECRET SIDE OF EMPTY is listed as a book to read if you consider [...]

It was some time this spring that I realized I had to let go. I’m not sure how I feel about it. I power through life. I have fought the desolation of the human condition by doing. By [...]

As a writer, I sort of pride myself on being a loner. They’ve even created a handy new term for it since I first realized how much I liked solitude as a teen, one that sounds less pathological [...]