There I am in the United Airlines terminal when I realize: a ticket is not a plan. An airline ticket is not the golden ticket to success.

I didn’t know he’d been in the restroom building up his courage. I figured he was eating a hidden stash of beef jerky.

“Come on ladies! Don’t go! Take a chance! You could be winners!”

Shane is a bad boy. I'm not supposed to associate with bad boys.

Our birds have flown home for the time being, their disappointment palpable, but they are counting on us for comfort and continuity.

When Rumi said, “Listen to silence. It has so much to say,” I’m guessing he didn’t have tinnitus.

My understanding of the birds and the bees existed under a thick blanket of secrecy in the house of my childhood. When I was ten or so, I...

My house is a mere shell of it’s happiest self now that the Christmas decorations are gone. Early in December each box I bring out of...

I am 100% certain I'm going to die in this shit-hole motel above a dive bar with the remnants of a pot-infused chocolate bar in my hand...

Even if that Santa held no specific memories for me, he had once been held by my mother.