7:30 am “What’s your name for your coffee order?” She waits, expecting something she’ll misspell anyway. My government name? Nickname?...

We were paired by default, Hannah and me. That’s what happens when you’re in kindergarten and too shy to pick your own partner. Our...

I’m in the passenger seat in his car on our way back from Mount Cannon, my legs feel like jelly and all I want to do is peel off my socks...

In the fall of 1993, Sheridan Park Elementary in Hollywood, Florida, hastily created a mandatory in-school assembly on the dangers of...

What does one do after brain surgery? Back at home from hospital I couldn’t look at screens. I couldn’t read. I couldn’t walk more than...

Anaphylaxis Limbic resonance—I often know when he’s not feeling well, even before he tells me—I know when something’s wrong, the way a...

#1 Berrigan and the Bambino It’s not even the original photo. Some relative at some point scanned a few copies and sent them around....

When I was five, I found myself in the backseat of my stepfather's VW Bug as we hurried to the hospital. My stepfather was in the front...

“How I make my way through this thicket of information—how I manage it, how I parse it, how I organize and distribute it.” Kenneth...

When you drive north on Virginia State Route 15, the first indicator you are anywhere at all is Point of Rocks Bridge. The concrete maze...

the morning is hot. perspiration covers the barren ground. gray clay blotched with umber and burnt sienna is sanded with quartz grains....

Before the AIDS vigil, a stranger showed me how to poke a hole in the bottom of the paper cup and slowly slide the candle through so the...

"We’ll always be bosom buddies Friends, neighbors, and pals." Mame As my husband plays “Bosom Buddies” from Mame on YouTube on his IPAD,...

A satire

Finally finished “The Origin of the Work of Art,” which is not an essay but a confrontation: you have to be engaged with it at all times...