Dear Blue Ridge
Your springs have a mind of their own, yet they stay to their determined courses, following plans drawn up by gravity, grooves deepened by time.
The Problem With Parents
Parents have no entitlement to their children’s lives unless they wish to breed mistrust and resentment.
Table for One
She mouths the numbers to herself when she calculates the tip.
Goodbye Lubbock
You’ve been a pleasant surprise.
Popping Our Bubbles
Musk’s lousy management of Twitter has made visible, at least to me, the appeal of the app in the first place.
My Years in Grand Rapids, Ranked
Don’t accept a job with the first company that offers you a position out of college, especially if the head of the eight-person company reminds you of a shady televangelist.
Harry Styles and Home
It’s become less of a fixation and more of an appreciation.
I Love Being a Woman…But
Maybe it’s the patriarchy, maybe it’s Maybelline.
On Living Happily During the War
I train the hose on our seedlings and think about the rains that have failed over and over again in parts of the Horn of Africa.
My Rebellions
And you know what? I regret nothing.
