A conversation with my parents demands strategy. I’ve learned that some safe
topics include job anecdotes, platonic relationships, or a date gone comically
south. The more humor, the better. “Yeah, we did
I was nine years old.
With one more birthday, I would be old enough to start my quest and chase down
my lofty dream of becoming a Pokémon master. (In that world, ten-year-olds
The days surrounding July 4th normally trumpet the ease of summer, but this
year’s music is different. It was Tuesday, the fifth of July, when the horns
gave way to the unrelenting
On the third of July, I sat on my back porch with a cup of English Breakfast. I
was there to write an essay about
[http://highcallingblogs.com/9642/independence-day/] the Fourth of
[The piece below, originally published in 2011, announced what The Curator’s 4th
of July week looked like back then and what it will look like this week, in
2019: We’re publishing
