Your Aunt Did Not Intend This
Confronting the tragedy of child labor.
Jackal at the Shrine
Fiction, on raising the dead.
Growing Up Chomsky
Childhood as linguistics lab.
A Different Kind of Sound
Sign language stories in Barnes and Nobles.
Sallow and Muted Glory
A reflection on faith and body.
One Summer
She is a young woman in love. She had been a girl, who, at seven, danced with a handsome older cousin at a wedding, looking up at him with steady, curious eyes, wondering at the first blush of an attraction for which she didn’t yet know the name. She came to believe in love, as a boy might believe in heroism: as an occasion for both virtue and adventure.
30 Minutes
She said she wanted to be 30 minutes from a mountain, 30 minutes from a city, and 30 minutes from a sea.
How to Remember Names
Human connection is beautiful, but one must remember not to dampen that burgeoning fire by committing
the greatest sin of all friendships: forgetting a name.
10 Things You Absolutely Don’t Need to Bring to College
But Your Mother Will Insist You Do
When You Find Yourself
Reach for a hardcover book with his name
sprawled across the top. It’s only natural,
you consider, to be drawn in by philosophers whose
names you once pronounced phonetically.
Parched
Social responsibility and conditions of scarcity.
Dolores, Part II
The second part of a serialized story