That Moment When You Realize You’re Stuck Being You for the Rest of Your Life

How to Pray to a God You Don’t Believe In

Cross-legged on the cold, tiled floor of a hospital corridor, I heard myself talking to…

What Should a Person Believe?

After God’s dead, no one’s watching

Gaming as Relationship Status

Button-mashing, breaking up, and other dangerous forays

83 Ways to Begin a Vibrator Essay

I turned twenty and bought myself a six-toed cat, a five hundred dollar pair of boots, and a sleek…

While Your Wife Is at a Memorial Service

Don’t think, obviously; nothing good can come of that.

BB Guns, Gangs, and Other Teenage Rites of Passage

Do Stop Believing

A little before she turned eight, my daughter Q had a loose tooth succumb to a spoon full of lemon yogurt. As she wrote a note…

A Dead Father-Daughter Conversation

Today my father tells another father that his daughter has died in a car accident. My father was…

My First Adult Decision

Joan Didion said that once she has her first line, she has her story. “Everything else is going to flow from that…