Do Kids Still Make Leaf Collections?
I miss when attention to the world around us, and wonder over the beauty of the earth, was our assignment.
An Open Letter to My Four-Year Apartment
I promise to keep trying to leave room on the walls and shelves for new things, even if that means taking some old things down.
The Wedding Guest User Guide
Weddings are about people coming together, and that’s not limited to the people tying the knot.
Goodbye and Hello
So another tpc cycle begins anew: a new editorial board, new regular writers.
The Milk
I feel so incredibly loved to have people who will miss me like this; I feel so incredibly remorseful to know that my move will hurt them. I don’t tell them that milk makes me sad.
The Hedgehog of Shame
Sometimes I’d do anything to get away from the frightening ambiguous emotional mass I feel.
Learning to Create From My Past Self
We came up with a strategy to try to get me to write faster, which was to play the Macklemore song “Can’t Hold Us” on loop until I was done.
The Best Museums You’ve Never Heard Of (Take That, British Museum)
The very dramatic voiceover describing the role of the rocks in the politics of feudal Japan is worthy of a blockbuster movie trailer.
Anticipate This!
It is painful to be a child of time.
Confessions of a Second-Year Gardener; or, Celebrating Inadequacy
More often than not, I’ve found myself wanting to walk away from the garden this year.
