When was the last time you ran somewhere? I don’t mean lace up your trainers, set your stopwatch, and run to the end of the block and back. Not running for mil...
My arms pull at the water, followed quickly by a frog-kick, legs pushing the water. Lifting my head and seeing the pool wall distantly ahead of me, I will my l...
I’m not the type to listen to Christmas music out of season, but I read the Christmas story year-round. The angel’s proclamation — I bring you good news of gr...
Reading from the book of Job, I can’t help but think of my Uncle Tom. As I write, he is fighting to recover from a serious brain surgery. He is foggy, distant...
Dmitri Dmitrich Gurov leads a double life. The protagonist of Anton Chekhov’s short story The Lady with the Dog stretches himself between two places. In Moscow...
"god i thank you that i am not likeunrighteous solomon fell for womenshe made the man eat from the tree her psych-ology deceptive and fleeting thereinthe troub...
During my senior year, my high school decided to pilot what they called “individualized learning,” which ultimately meant that I spent every eighth block econo...
Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, became furious, and he sent and killed all the male children in Bethlehem and in all that reg...
Dear Father,
You’ll remember how often I’ve said that being an older brother is the hardest thing I’ve done (and will likely remain so until I become a pare...
This quarantine is hard, full stop. It is necessary, inevitable, and all the same just plain hard. The swiftness of a change so massive was shocking: in the ti...
