Last Words

Spencer Miles Kimball was born on April 21, 1989. He came into the world blue: his circulation was slow to acclimate. But when he came…

Every Word

Last week, my brother Spencer tried to kill himself. He swallowed fifty pills, an enormous overdose of anti-depressants. He survived. And…

The World of Writing

A month ago today, I turned in my senior thesis. On Atlanta’s 1895 Cotton States and International Exposition; it was a…

Capacity for Love

At the funeral home, we sat on a floral couch. Chapstick in a jacket pocket, buried between couch cushions. I shifted sadly in…

Open System

The decade started on a beige eMachine, in my bedroom, at twelve years old. I feel really dumb writing to a computer about my life, but I…

Meanwhile, Everything Else

Excerpts from letters sent in the space between graduation and San Francisco.

Exposition

It is manifest that the varieties of being concerned or dedicated, and of loving, are important to us quite apart from any antecedent capacities for affecting us which what we care about may have. This is not particularly because caring about something makes us susceptible to certain additional…