House Hunt
The house listed around 2:00 p.m. on Thursday, we walked through it at 3:30, and we wrote on it by 11:00 a.m. Friday. We weren’t the first offer.
Michigan Gods
I’m not scared of the gods that inhabit these places per se; I’m just wary of the humans who built them.
My Best Advice
I spend a fair bit of time with first year college students. I am sometimes envious of them.
Aesop’s Heretofore Undiscovered Fables, August 2019
Moral: Take care, even when ye be in Haeyste, to not do that which woulde Waste Tyme later, for from Haeyste proceedeth only Waeyste.
First Dog-Cousin, Once Removed
Clark and Tessie came immediately to the back screen door, already vocalizing their hunger. No Lewis.
Things That Happened to Me in My First Two Weeks at Calvin
The memory of their faces in this moment is one of two life events that can make me cry on cue.
Lucille Bald
Have you ever noticed how intimate sitcoms are?
A Brief Account of Recent Miracles
I’m writing about the extraordinary.
Inevitable Forward Movement
How many other transitions in life are like this: inevitable, beautiful, a blessing, and a pain so deep its aches reverberate through generations.
Jes
Between the Jes I think I know and that other Jes, the inexhaustible Jes, the one who slips briefly into view whenever she offers an unexpected comment, a laugh out of place, a sideways glance.
