Jamie ZipfelBeige 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…3 min read·Jan 16, 2024----
Jamie ZipfelA 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…5 min read·Jan 11, 2024----
Jamie ZipfelGet 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…6 min read·Jan 9, 2024----
Jamie ZipfelWell, 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…3 min read·Jan 4, 2024----
Jamie ZipfelOn 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.”7 min read·Jul 30, 2023----
Jamie ZipfelReturn 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…7 min read·Jul 25, 2023----
Jamie ZipfelCalculated 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…2 min read·Jun 23, 2023----
Jamie ZipfelIf 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…5 min read·Apr 30, 2023--1--1
Jamie ZipfelHome PlaceWhen I think about home, I’m not thinking about the sprawling suburb that contained my last address, although that’s what people are…8 min read·Apr 2, 2023--1--1