A Big Corner
There are single family homes and giant, shiny apartment buildings and about six 7-Elevens in my square mile.
Category Archives: Washington, D.C.
Tips from a Year of Museuming
Whenever I enter a museum, I rediscover rhythms that I haven’t used since my last trip to Adventureland for nerds.
Christmas Eve, Anticipation, and Alexander Ovechkin
There’s something about Waldorf, Maryland that just screams “mundane!”
Mopeds
As her name suggested, Libertad would be freedom for me.
Froot Loops and How to Fill My Days
If I were to sit down with past Christina I’d want to relieve some of that angst, although I’m not sure if she’d like the answers I’d give.
Holding the Metaphor Lightly
Metaphors are tools for meaning-making, and when those tools have harvested bushel after bushel of meaning for my life, of course I struggle to see them as incomplete, limiting, or dangerous.
Next Time Will Be Worse
If I sound deeply alarmed, that’s because all the available evidence points towards that being the appropriate state of mind.
My Life Stages (Seen Through Transportation)
I’m still afraid I’m boarding the wrong train.
Prepare for Re-entry (Part 2)
It is so good to get back into a crowd, but it’s harder and stranger and lonelier than I expected it would be.
Keep Your Friends Close
As much as we hope to find friends where we land, I wonder how many of us simply direct our energy into things we can better control.
