The Education of Oronte Churm

And to finish off my journal month, a fitting quote copied out from Chekhov's book on Sakhalin: "They keep writing...

Subtract 30 seconds from my 15 minutes of fame: In the Italian deli with family friends. An old woman walks...

Final couplet to an unwritten poem: A desperate way of living, calledGet It While You Can.

A and Z have a child whose tonsils must come out. The child wakes from anesthesia in great pain and...

Viewing a fossilized mammoth skeleton at the Children’s Museum. The spread of the pelvis, wide as an elephant’s ears. The...

At a party, Dr. S, a Chinese neurologist practicing in the Midwest on exchange. Young, funny, has also worked in...