Goodbye, Sally Webster
A few weeks ago, after 10 years of running a bed and breakfast, my parents sold
their inn, their home. In a way, that was always part of the plan. A ten-year
plan.
Jonathan Fitzgerald
Jonathan Fitzgerald is writer, web developer and perpetual learner living in Jersey City with his wife Stephanie, a painter. He has written for a number of periodicals and journals both online and in
Regarding the Garden State
For most of my life I have delighted in my identity as a New Englander. At
different stages, this meant different things. When I was very young it meant I
came from the
Facebook Morality
The other night I found myself in a conversation that I may have found rather
ordinary between 2004 and 2007, back home north of Boston or some other
semi-cosmopolitan place, but which felt
Go Ahead, Change My Mind
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been teaching arguing, or persuasive, essays
in my freshmen composition courses. I save this format, along with evaluating
essays, for last because in some sense
Several Selves
When I was a child, I wore many hats – in precisely the way the clichéd
expression means. Early photographs show me sitting on my father’s lap, arms
outstretched, driving a pretend fire