UNCOMFORTABLE MOMENTS

Challenging. Unprecedented. Unpredictable. Difficult. Dismal. Brutal. Of the many adjectives I’ve seen applied to this year, probably the od...

"Wow, look at those nails. Did you do that yourself?" the anesthesiologist asked. He was lifting the top of my gown and plunking...

She had sat there, she said, and thought about her own lifelong habit of explaining herself, and she thought about this power of silence, wh...

There's a subscription box for everything: makeup, snacks, meats. Maybe one day there will be a subscription box fo...

Sometimes getting older feels like a complimentary crash course in things you never wanted to understand. What it’s like to become seemingl...

I am not here to add words or feelings about the election of our nation's first orange president. Several other people have expressed a...

I love this thought, speaking as the child author of an unpublished how-to series on spying. I think innocence is something that adults p...

The passage below, scrabbled on the back of a flyer, was recently culled from my extensive archive . I decided to share it here because to m...

The beginning of this year was a doozy , wasn't it? My posts to this blog seemed like they were going to take flight as if it were the m...

On the way back to the office from an outing today, I spent a good few minutes thinking about being told to smile by strangers on the street...