There is a number saved in my phone contacts, under the name “My Life”. I first saved it over a decade ago and have carefully copied it...

Without knowing why, I love to seek answers from the sky as if there’s someone up there, who listens. The summer is usually hot but not...

In my senior portraits I am wearing brown and green cigarette pants and a pea-colored spaghetti strap shirt. Most likely I looked like...

Roe v. Wade and I were born two weeks apart in January 1973. We both came into the world in the middle of storms: mine was a blizzard and...

PANDEMICAL PERSPECTIVE The pandemic has changed life for so many people in so little time. New relationships have been forged out of...

“Just remember, you’re not alone,” Ms. M said as she cradled the eighteen-year-old college freshman girl, looking past the watery wells...

When cigarette smoke enters your mouth the lining in your nose and esophagus will almost immediately become red and irritated. This is...

Helping Survivors is an online-only organization working remotely providing resources for individuals who have experienced sexual assault...

I turn 60 and think, Shit, if I want learn Spanish someday, I better get crackin’. So I move to Oaxaca and enroll in language school, but...

I remember when, on November 18 of 1956, Kruschev declared, “We will bury you!”. (What he actually said was, "My vas pokhoronim,” which...

I didn’t care how badly he spoke Greek. John was strikingly handsome. Beautiful dark brown eyes, a well-proportionated body, and dashing...

It’s been the kind of morning where: You know you mopped the kitchen floor last night but it’s sticky this morning, so you mop again. You...