Out of My Shell
As she moves through the thin carpet of the five-gallon bucket’s leaves, the
painted turtle sounds like she has a peg-leg: rustling, scraping, clunking. A
sour reptile smell hangs over the bucket.
Humanity
Unstatement
Having dabbled in music composition, graphic design, and writing fiction, I
found in myself a confusing network of interests and an alarming readiness to
feign expertise in a new medium. I realized that
Where We Left the Octopus
What particularly struck us, as we scanned the Lonely Planet travel guide for
things to do in Croatia, was the fact that you may ask the monk precisely one
question, to which he
Twenty-Five @ 25
Wisdom from a Quarter-Life Crisis:
1. People your age will lose babies before birth. You realize what Frodo
meant.
2. Teenagers really do make moronic decisions.
3. Grown-ups don’t stop making mistakes,
The Parent Trap
Choice. It is a loaded term. In our volatile political climate, it is even a
buzzword, understood to refer to a particularly weighty decision concerning
childbearing, and thus has become shorthand in the