Stuff I Need Help With

“Hey dad,” my five-year-old son said. “Wouldn’t it be cool if for your birthday, I got you a robot that…

“His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy There’s vomit on his sweater already…” ‘Lose Yourself,’ Eminem  Hundreds of…

Sarah was just a child when she lost her big sister. A gorgeous 17-year-old. Stricken with cancer. Died in her…

I grew up poor. In a Catholic school with uniforms and predominantly wealthy classmates. We weren’t, like, destitute. The lights…

In the 1860s, despite relatively widespread use of keyboards for writing and professional communication, businessmen investing in typewritten communications were…

Chest heaving, tears running down my face, the words pour out of me. I couldn’t hold them in if I…

I live unsustainably. I’ve known it for a while, but it really became evident when I was kicking around how…

There’s a U.S. military arsenal not far from where I live—adjacent to the small township in which my ex-wife grew…

Even holed up in a hospital bed for the first time since 1970, my father was still sympathetic to my…

I threw in my lot with most of you a long time ago. And by “most of you,” I mean…