i met my second Freelance Produce Spirit at the grocery store today. (the first one, a regal elderly woman who materialized beside me at the...

last night i dreamed that i finally gave in to my adulthood-long urge to shave my head. "it looks better than i thought it would,"...

it's a sultry year at the film festival; i realized i didn't have time to go home and nap before i met joe at an evening screening, ...

the dirty dozen {twelve things i cherished at our all-night trail-racing extravaganza in kentucky } what's so goddamn essential to a ca...

the longest, darkest leg of my kentucky relay race started out quite nicely. i received the team bib from my college roommate at around tw...

on thursday evening the missus and i will fly out to louisville with suitcases full of tents, sleeping bags, fairy lights, and synthetic clo...

the chuck essay is easily the scariest part of my book-to-be. telling stories about how i try to do right by other creatures is fine, i do t...

we drove out to the south rim of the grand canyon in my in-laws' beleaguered old grey bmw. i had lobbied for us to take two cars—i like ...

we are on the move again, this time to arizona, where my in-laws have gone unvisited for nearly two years. we keep trying to trick them into...

is it clear that i would have pigeons if i could have pigeons? i would have pigeons if i could have pigeons. (our little cat's interest ...

Another obsession that alienates some new boyfriends is making jigsaw puzzles. I will sometimes stay up all night doing them, usually when I...

sean spicer and i seem to be active around the same time; i've angry-jogged at at least three of his farcical speeches this winter. or n...