grief
an impossible horizon
ghosts, grief and hope at maximum tilt
physics
playhouses
My five-year-old, Brontë, has her first bad cold of the season. She kind of reminds me of a grumpy gnome when she’s sick. But this particular sickness kept her from twirling outside in the first snow of the season. So she’s been in a mood that feels a
war
something scattered
falling leaves and falling bombs
family
Oracles and Angry Girls
Choose what is divine
physics
In Which I Rot in the Ground
but only by one measure
myth
A pilgrimage to a Taylor Swift Shrine
Why was I feeling God in this Eras Tour?
housing
I visited my childhood home
My parents bought it for $240k. Today, it's for sale for $1.3 million
family
The Final Frontier Has a Front Porch
An explorer is someone who cries out
environment
There's No Escape
The mountains could burn and the sky could smoke. We’d be underground.
guns in america
When the answers are worn out and the kitsch is too
First, a hard thing I wrote and then, a happy meal I went to New York City for spring break with my kids. It was really special. And also very difficult because of an extenuating circumstance I like to call “being a parent in America.” I wrote a piece about
Riley was in a Mr. Clean Commercial
Also, it's my birthday
religion
Seeing Stars
Grief, Ghosts and the Impossible Promise of Christmas