There’s a game people play when opening their fortune cookies. You read your fortune out loud and add “in bed” at the end. It’s not so...

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“The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent...

The phrase that got all the attention was “I would like you to do us a favor though.” Because we can hear it in the mouth of a movie...

I’ve been thinking a lot about rejection lately. Which is to say: I’m writing. The memoir I’ve been writing for the last few years is...

During the "Ask Ellen" segment of Relatable, Degeneres invites a friend, the actor Laura Dern, who is sitting in the audience (next to...

A wildly inappropriate simmering rage that, to my shame, lives beneath even typical Saturdays Last weekend, Kori and I took our kids to...

A Review of Heather Harpham's Happiness I’ve been thinking a lot about this Facebook post by my friend and colleague John Gallaher:...

Tear down this wall. They’re going to get jobs. I think I’m going to do very well with Hispanics. But we’re building a wall. He’s a...

The 2018 election's over. Kavanaugh's been confirmed. He's earning a salary and writing opinions. So I know what I'm not doing: trying to...

Because his calendars are calendars. Or: An exploration of why Brett Kavanaugh's conventions, codes, and stories only convinced me that...

Do I write music and literary prose for the same reason that male frogs seek out cavernous spaces to amplify their voices? As a way to...