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.
HPC Hipsters
“Better, we thought, to wait out the clock than go looking for new friends.”
Moving Together Without Drifting Apart
Your spouse may ask if you really need all these books and couldn’t you get rid of some? The only permissible answer to such an insult is “I don’t understand the question and I won’t respond to it.”
Mary Kajiwara’s Hundredth Birthday
When everyone gathered around her and started singing “Happy Birthday” in a key far too high, she knew to blow out the candles.
A Good Book Can
A good book can fill you with an odd evangelistic urge to press its pages into someone else’s hands.
Phenotypes of Funny
They don’t smile much, they hate small talk, and you get the sense that they are mentally preparing themselves for an imminent apocalypse.
