Your brother heads off to teach in San Antonio. Before he does, kisses his two kids as they climb the steps of the school bus.…
There was only one journey of importance in Ben’s life. He’d made car and train trips, but only one journey, repeated over and over, mattered.…
When it comes to writing personal essays, self-absorption is the authorial equivalent of rat poison—injurious to the writer’s reputation, fatal to the little essay itself.…
As I was driving to New York City in late October, 2021, I took an exit for Lake Erie outside Erie, Pennsylvania. I drove along…
When it comes to writing personal essays, self-absorption is the authorial equivalent of rat poison—injurious to the writer’s reputation, fatal to the little essay itself.…
Even from 35,000 feet, I can spot it, the sandy sweep of Lake Michigan’s eastern shore, then a little dimple carved into the giant expanse…