because prayer should have quieted my mind / because
my prayers have not worked / because therapy is what
sick people need / because I am not sick but strong /
because if I believe in God
Saturday night, while making dinner for my wife and children, I was listening to
The Beths, a power pop band I’d discovered on a podcast a few weeks before. I
felt a
Get there early on a day of spotty rain;
be on the muddy path and find
contentment with damp clothes.
You’ll hear palmettos off to the side,
yaupons on your way. You’
Jia Tolentino’s debut essay collection, Trick Mirror: Reflections on
Self-Delusion, is popular. The book hit #2 on the NYT Bestseller list the week
it became eligible for that list’s measurement, and
The Works Progress Administration
[https://www.history.com/topics/great-depression/works-progress-administration]
(WPA) was a New Deal initiative launched in 1935, in the heart of the Great
Depression, to combat widespread unemployment and raise