50 things that should never be made of wood
Exit. Brexit. That’s my first response to the word.
Butter was something that separated me from the rest of America, made me alien in restaurants, in the school…
Some personal items and spaces are more private than others. You can open someone’s kitchen drawers…
One of the things I always pack for travel is a washcloth in my carryon. Maybe another in my suitcase. I get the…
Silence drives me mad. Not the silence itself, but what shows up in it. I need the noise, the music, the…
When I was younger, I felt an impatience with the complainant nostalgia of older folks about vanished ways of social…
Puppies are good. Kittens. Though I am not a cat person, and kittens do grow into cats. Penguins and cows…
A half is only precise in cooking or chemistry. Sure, physics will tell you the half-life of plutonium, but it will hedge the…
She was a perfect mirror. Do not imagine an empty vessel for others to pour their ideas into. That would make her a glass…