Beige FlagsI’ve been thinking a lot about the Internet concept of “beige flags”. Not red flags, like being mean to waitresses or cats, but not green…Jan 16, 2024Jan 16, 2024
A Quagmire, A Quest, and a Quality Dining ExperienceI thought it was just something I’d given up without realizing it was at stake. In the four years since I moved to Abu Dhabi, I’d given up…Jan 11, 2024Jan 11, 2024
Get Your Freak OnThe thing they don’t tell you about healing your inner child is that once you’re done being pissed off at your dad and your hometown and…Jan 9, 2024Jan 9, 2024
Well, I’m Standing Here, Aren’t I?I do a lot of writing about my past, as nonfiction writers often do, and I thought the fact that I’d lived to tell the tale was enough…Jan 4, 2024Jan 4, 2024
On Women: At Los Alamos, Onscreen, and Everywhere Else“We mothers stand still so our daughters can look back to see how far they’ve come.”Jul 30, 2023Jul 30, 2023
Return to TerabithiaFor years, I’d avoided it, assumed that this was just one of those gaps in my memory that was meant to be there. Also I remember hating the…Jul 25, 2023Jul 25, 2023
Calculated Risk“There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” — Frank…Jun 23, 2023Jun 23, 2023
If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.“And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘if this isn’t nice, I don’t know what…Apr 30, 20231Apr 30, 20231
Home PlaceWhen I think about home, I’m not thinking about the sprawling suburb that contained my last address, although that’s what people are…Apr 2, 20232Apr 2, 20232
