All good stories are fictional.

If reality TV were really reality, every show would be like surveillance tape. Each episode would be 24 hours of people biting …

why are we parents always so anxious to get to places we don’t want to go?

Once you start thinking of the world as something you don’t already know, time slows down. Encountering a place, any place, is like encountering a person who fascinates you. Someone you might love, if you had the time.

it’s hard for adults to celebrate halloween.

Halloween is a children’s holiday. The older you get, the more pathetic it feels to dress up in costumes and …

meetings, church services and karaoke.

If you could be instantly present anywhere in the universe, would you choose a place where a teenager was playing the electric drums and it smelled like a cafe inside a UPS Store? 

the easiest way to tell a student from a parent.

I remember graduating from college and thinking “Why can I automatically tell that someone is a parent, even if they …