Fearful Familiarity
After Trump won, my sister said we “were in the darkest timeline.” And certainly dystopia has its relevance in times such as these.
The End of the World
Don’t you wonder how you’d handle the end of the world? I bet you’ve thought of how you’d handle the zombie apocalypse, if nothing else.
In All Her Seasons
We are changeable creatures. We follow certain rules, consistent as trees in our inconsistency.
The View from Downstairs
But this isn’t what people picture when they think of ambition, is it? I think they picture someone climbing Mt. Everest, or a man in a suit looking out the window of a high rise — thinking not of his view, but of the view from the office above him.
Trespassers Will Be Shot, God Bless
“How do you balance it?” I ask my sister, the civil rights lawyer. It is some time past midnight, and she is trying to sleep on a slowly deflating air mattress in the corner of my dorm room. “How do you balance… your compassion and your anger?”
Genius Envy, Feat. Lin Manuel Miranda
Don’t geniuses make you want to crawl under your bed and die some of the time? Admit it. Like the sun, human brilliance is painful to behold.
Dear Santa, I’ve Been at Least 55% Good, and…
Dear Santa,
I know I’m a little overdue for writing this request letter, but given the influx of mail that you tend to get, isn’t it really better that it’s a few weeks after Christmas?
Foreign Cities Worth Consideration in the Trump Era
While I encourage all my readers to stay in the USA and help work against the worst of whatever comes next, I know that everyone has a unique set of circumstances, and for those of you who wouldn’t mind taking a break with America or feel they need to, here’s my personal get-away list.