The Cities That Were
Ruins should horrify us—grim testaments to our permanent impermanence
DB Cooper and Unsolved Mysteries
Like all Northwesterners, I do have my own pet theory about the Cooper case.
History, What Is It Good For?
I’ve heard it said that historians are the “mules of academia.”
Alongside Mary Gates
Have you ever seen the air before?
Transplants
Without a breaking loose of the old, sometimes there simply isn’t room to grow.
It Only Takes Three
Something repeated enough becomes the truth.
Gloom and Doom
As the days have steadily gotten shorter, darker, and wetter, the creeping presence of death has seemed to constrict tighter around my periphery.
Snapshots of a Dieffenbachia
His twig-thin waist cannot support his bulging, leafy muscles.
Roads: Untaken, Taken
But I will often retrace the roads and words I’ve taken and exhale, exultant.
Top Ten
Who knew when we’d see each other again, with the pandemic rolling in and the economy flipping belly-up, with graduation and wedding and career plans scattering in the air like confetti.
