Every road out of Washington is coated in a pre-dawn blanket of clean snow...

On January 1st, 2010, I wake up with two black eyes. I am thirteen years old, and three nights a week I walk to an Assemblies of God church

Ten years ago, I pierced my nose for the first time...

Mexican guidebooks have a lot of rules. Mimi and I have given up on most of them. I’m not-quite divorced, but I’m separated enough to be res

December 18th, 2009. You stand on a California sidewalk about to go into a spa...

K stands for Kookie, a nickname I could never shake. It’s cute, people say, like you. I might have been cute once...

I sat in the hallway outside my apartment on the fifth floor where I could catch the internet signal from my third-floor neighbors. They...

It’s November 21, 2009 and I am rushing through LAX—it’s the third time in my life I’ve visited the City of Angels. I zig zag past a...

On November 13 2009, I ended up in North Carolina and it was a Friday. The first line to a novel I probably won’t write, too busy trying....

At 5:30 am on November 13, 2009, I removed an earbud from my mother’s ear with the gentlest care, as if I could rouse her from her...