Essays about life + growing older with no fucking grace.
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Last Things.
Photographer: Henry Hargrieves. From the series No Seconds. The last meals of death row inmates, just before their executions.
David is in Noosa, Australia. With his dad, John, known to his grandkids as Poppy.
Yesterday, they threw John...
The Mums.
Photography: Melissa Ann Pinney. From the series “Regarding Emma”
Years ago, when David and I first fell in love, we cooked dinner together for his work friends and colleagues, and his brother and sister-in-law. He invited everyone over to...
The Boomers are Fucking Up Everything!
Ed Kashi: Woman plays the slots in Reno, Nevada. 2000
This weekend I read aloud a New York Times opinion piece in the car to David. Children in head phones lined the back seats. The April 2026 piece, Older Americans Are Hoarding America’s...
Analog.
Something interesting happened when I took Lucy and Edie across New York state to look at colleges. On every visit, I noticed something that surprised me… Zines.
Not like one little place in the art department or only in super-bohemian li...
I Miss Being Horny.
Photographer: Javiera Estrada. Salt + Sea
It was Saturday, date night, early-ish, around 6:30pm. Broad daylight in Vegas. We had an early date night at our favorite local, The Red Dwarf, a dark, punk, tiki bar, where we try to get in befor...
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Social Scientist + James Beard Award-winning author of The Meth Lunches (St. Martin's. 2023). Essays about the philosophy of living + growing older with no fucking grace.
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