The skin folded over, the potato skin. It was glistening in amber oil still hot, and we’d have plenty of time for it to cool before people arrived. The folded part would be extra crispy, like the potato chips I…

One of the jurors who was rejected said, of the defendant, as if she were surprised, "He's just a man!"And of course he is, but isn't that his mystique, that's he something greater, that he's yuuuuuge? Well, actually he is…

You are like me. We may not seem to be alike at all on the surface, but we are. We may not like the same things. You may enjoy listening to country music while I prefer straight ahead jazz. You…

by design. Genetic design mostly but also subject to the vagaries of chance so it's not to say that we are terribly alike, but who is to say? There is no possible way to compare us side by side; all…

We are alike in so many ways it seems futile to try to prove otherwise, but letting my troubled mind wander, I shall write and write and write some more. Lucky you. In that, we are similar in the sheer…

Do you believe in following your "passion"? Or do you think it's better, in the long run, to stick to what you know and keep the security of what you've built? This answer is subjective, and I know the answer…

My child, I know you think you are different, unique, and special. You are all those things. I know that you think I have no useful information to impart. Perhaps I do not. Yet, I suspect that all children on…

I’ve been reading Annie Ernaux lately. Odd that one can say “I’m reading a person” when what one means is I am reading books by Annie Ernaux. I think that’s called synecdoche. No matter. What matters is how much Annie…

Violet had seen the furry white ball darting from bush to bush for the last month. She could have hidden in her grande Starbucks cup. Her smallness lifted a fear from an internal cavern Violet refused to see in herself.…

You are like me and different, too. For instance. They say we look the same, that it's obvious we're mother and daughter. I see a resemblance, at certain angles and when you smile. I tell myself, rather hope, that we're…

The show was returning for its sixth season, and for the first time neither Josh nor I would be there. There is no announcement for leaving your ex-boyfriend and dating his best friend and then you two leaving the workplace…