How to Celebrate America
The Revolution that Has Yet to Happen
How to Watch an Eclipse
On predictions and obsessions
How to Leap
Photo by Valerie Elash on UnsplashI love a leap day. There are many reasons to love it — the way it flips February from even to odd and nudges Valentine’s...
How to Move
Goodbye to some of that
How to Look Back
Favorite writing of 2023
How to Make a Dish
Dinner is ready, even if nothing else is
How to Come Home
What is life
How to Breathe
Some calamities you live with. Some Calamities you live in.
How to Own Your Story
I Was Young Here
How to Get from There to Here
Portion of “The National Atlas of the United States of America. General Reference,” compiled by U.S. Geological Survey 2001, printed 2002Lewis, Kansas was 10...
Book Bits: Mrs. Dalloway
Picturing Selves and Time
How to Wait
When It Seems Like Others Are Busy Making the World Into Something Else
Giving Thanks
And Always Being In Between
How to Be Resilient
Hand on My Stupid Heart
How to Be a Tourist
Unroll the map of yourself a little further
How to Be From Somewhere
An Unexpected Discovery
How to Keep Beginning Again
The Yearly Trick of Looking New
How to Make Perfect
Again and Again
How to Leave Your Child
You bring him home from the hospital, in our case so early that you haven’t yet bought him a bed.You look at him, inscrutable in a quickly assembled...
How to See
Untitled, Harlem, New York, 1963When’s the last time you looked closely at something?The Jack Shaiman Gallery’s decision to split its “Gordon Parks: Half and...
