Sea Glass Shadows
One day, knowing how much you love the beach and cats, our mom will find a book that happens...
Two Fools, Among Others
It started with Jack Kerouac, unfortunately. I was a performatively masculine seventeen-year-old, like most people reading Kerouac, and I...
A to Zikaron: Re(t)reading Animalia
“An Armored Armadillo Avoiding An Angry Alligator:” so begins Graeme Base’s 1986 alphabet book Animalia, a menagerie of animals,...
Dear American Girl, I am Getting Top Surgery
Your body is talking to you. Can you hear it? Learn to tune in to your body and hear...
Parenting and Perspective
My daughter is in the first grade, and her teacher gives her a packet of homework for the week...
Edmund
I always liked Aslan a little better than Jesus. The Christ of the Bible could be rather erratic—a trait...
Golden Hours
I lost reading along the way growing up, shedding the stripes that had marked a bookish boyhood. The fad...
The Life That is Waiting For Us
The first time anyone asked me what I thought of A Room with a View, I said, “sure, it’s...
The Corrosive Sublime
Towards the end of the barricade sequence in Les Misérables, Victor Hugo remarks, Victory, when in accord with progress,...