The other day, CNN’s top headline was: Rio 2016’s ‘perfect storm.’ “The Olympic Games arrive in Brazil at a time when the country is ravaged by crises,” it began, then detailed the Zika virus, the government meltdown, and economic woes. “No news,” one […]Read More ›

Lately I’ve been thinking about quitting writing. Fantasizing about it, in fact. And this fantasy is sad and confusing because writing has been my identity for 33 years. Because I don’t really know who I am without it. For a decade, […]Read More ›

In October, one of my molars became abscessed. Despite copious amounts of Tylenol and Ibuprofen, the pain was persistent, would wake me up at night. I fantasized about extracting my molar with plyers as I cried. After a root canal, […]Read More ›

Between January 2014 and July 2015 I saved up to travel the world. After 18 months, I’d accrued $10,000. Then in August 2015, I sank every last dollar into a condo in Minneapolis. In reality, I bought that condo so […]Read More ›

The last time I blogged it was February, and I wrote about writing and how I love writing and how it sometimes seems like the people and the things we love are preordained, out-of-our-control. We love them and we can’t […]Read More ›