So Sonia was not my only or even my first best friend. She was the last. It wasn t that I hadn t made friends since just that I thought myself past the age of...

To belong nowhere is a blessing and a curse, like any kind of freedom.

His face became a mirror, and in it I saw a monster version of myself, unleashing my anger like black magic. In front of my children, in front of my neighbors’ house. If I’d really...

….and I’ll know that this is what you live for – to hear someone say. “Let’s go home,” to hear someone you love call your name.

A lot of people see it as a kind of failure to stay in the place where you’re from, especially if you’re from the Midwest. Like ambition is geographic.

attraction, that’s the farthest thing from an idea. That’s an urge, an impulse, a force. It’s subconscious, physical. You can’t make everything cerebral.