My Spanish class started a few minutes late yesterday. A student brought up Beyonce’s Black Panther homage at the Super Bowl and it lit a…
Some years are chaotic, others are are spent putting the pieces back together after all the chaos-induced dust has settled. 2015 was the latter kind…
The inner half of my left eyebrow is falling out. It’s not quite noticeable yet, but it’s flirting with severity in a way that is…
You learn a lot about people when you ask them for money. Whether you’re selling a product, raising money for a cause, or just need…
Shortly after moving to New York City, a friend of mine asked me what it’s like to date here. “Well, I’ve been single since the…
The US women’s soccer team won the 2015 World Cup this past Sunday. If you’ve been living under a rock, you might not know that…
The man was partially covered with a yellow plastic sheet. Policemen stood in a ring around his prostrate form, partially obstructing the view of craning necks and…
I’ve never been much of a poet. Whenever the semi-annual poetry unit rolled around in English I would roll my eyes, pulled out the rhyming…
Last week a young man in my Nonfiction Writing Workshop at Columbia pulled me aside after class. “Hey, so did you write something that everyone…