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Truth Before Beauty
Hello all!
I published a short essay about Piers Plowman (what else) at em-dash journal. Em-dash is a new hybrid academic-cum-creative journal started by some of my wonderful grad school friends at Claremont Graduate University. They’re lo...
Backseat; or, Two Stories About Driving
This fall Margaret started kindergarten at a school that requires uniforms. In fact, technically she started school in August at one school that requires uniforms and then switched in October to another school that requires slightly dif...
Aging giddily
Last Friday, I got Botox for the first time–or technically, Dysport, a gentler nudge of neurotoxins, what you might call the thinking man's Botox. Before Friday I had never had laser, microneedling, a chemical peel, not even a spa facial. T...
Role Playing
A few days ago we were eating at our local breakfast taco place when the Brooks & Dunn song “Neon Moon” (1991) came on and I remembered with a start, “Oh yeah, that’s right, I LOVE this song.” I tried to explain my brief flirtation with ‘90...
The Idea of Permanence
A few weeks ago and with absolutely no context, Beatrice (who goes by Apollo now) ran up to me and said, “I can’t believe you threw me into the pool!”
“What are you talking about?”
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