HOW WE ARE.

For two and a half years, my daughter and I lived near a Marine Corps base in southern California. Our town sat in a dry, unforgiving...

How am I? Like most, frightened, hopeful. All the feels in half the time. But also thinking. Thinking that this crisis isn’t only about a...

Thank you for asking how I am. I have been thinking about my college English professor, Dr. Kroll. Her daily uniform was a navy corduroy...

Here's Steve playing "Turn Back"

How are you? When Nicole invited me to respond, I felt baffled, because I rarely answer anything except, “Fine, and you?” That’s not a...

Omg, thank you for thinking of me. I’m actually fine / All good news on my end / I’m good / I’m fine / Alright! Super bored / on hold...

While I work in my basement office, a bumblebee emerges from the white painted ceiling and buzzes around the room. It’s looking for a way...

I straddle two worlds.  One of deep gratitude and one of deep exhaustion. Emails back and forth with Desi’s doctors, the National...

I live five blocks from one of the oldest roller coasters in the world. Opening my windows to hear the screeches of “Giant Dipper”...

I am always home. I am 7,888 miles from home. I cook too much food for one person, mincing and stirring until my apartment and I both...

Hi Matt (and Josh and Pierre), I am single. Nothing new, I know, but I am a little dejected and disappointed, and the pandemic isn’t...

HOW WE ARE by Columbo, Spooner, and Q We are fine. But we are usually fine, because we want for nothing. Our whole lives we have been...

Only three months ago whenever somebody in the street waved to us, my husband and I would look at each other and ask, “Who is that?”  We...

I didn't know if the coughing came from a man, woman or child; young or old; tall or short; kind or crabby. All I knew was that he or she...

Laurie, I was just in our shared office yesterday. The entire English department hallway felt like a long-ago memory, though of course...

I am silent. Because I live alone, besides a jaded parakeet named Pickles, and so my life has been varying degrees of silence for a while...

How am I? I am usually watching Gilmore Girls but not today. Gilmore Girls (GG) stays on my television despite what I’m doing - as I wash...

The recipe calls for mixing the yeast directly into the flour. Mix 1 teaspoon yeast with 4 cups flour, 1 tablespoon of rosemary, and 2...

We became bored by that old stand-by game “Fuck, Marry, Kill.” P always choose Marry. I always choose Kill. This is why we’re married:...

Truth is, I made mistakes. No doubt about that. I own my part in it, and sincerely apologize to everyone who was affected. At the same...