i like writing on the subway because im alone surrounded by strangers im also not really anywhere which feels like im inside myself...

I’m sitting at a beachside café on Bingin Beach in Uluwatu, Bali, and I’m filled with a giddiness reminiscent of first-date jitters. I...

There’s this stretch of time between Thanksgiving and New Year’s—that’s mimicked on a microcosmic level between Christmas and New...

A collage of thoughts from tube rides in London over five weeks. See it. Say it. Sort it. That simple? double shot Tanqueray and Fever...

I used to be really bad at being alone. In fact, I feared it. In high school, I would leave my house around 6:30 AM and stay out as late...

We have reached that time of year when soonness is in full bloom. The cherry blossoms are on their way, pale pink buds taunting passersby...

“A theory: ‘Pretty’ has gone out of favor because we are greedy, and want the merely pretty to be fully beautiful, and so we go around...

9:24 AM | sunday “The whiteness of these waters is simple. They are elemental transparency. Like roundness, or silence, their quality is...

We have reached that time of year when soonness is in full bloom. The cherry blossoms are on their way, pale pink buds taunting passersby...

Pieces that should do the Should’s but pieces that so badly want the Want’s. Pieces that flirt with the beaten path and pieces that are...

So there’s this girl with big hands. Some people say “massive.” Certainly above average for girls her age. Puberty hit her early—in 5th...

A couple, who is no longer a couple—but at one moment of time, was certainly a couple—grab coffee. The girl starts. She is doing well....

A seamless follow-up question to “How are you?” in each summer-small-talk conversation. My response? Well, it seems to vary according to...

A journaling session that turned into a poem.

I parked outside my childhood home the other Tuesday and started listing things I like. Here's what I wrote down: I like how every day is...

(This should take 3-ish min to read... just about as long as your favorite song... why not pause here and throw it on?) So my dog Lola is...

A testimony by Kathy Park, Buddhist teacher at Kwan Um School of Zen. Kathy currently lives in Seoul, Korea, so we spoke virtually on...

“It feels bad to be used, but the alternative is no one wants to use you, and that’s worse.” (Quote from NPR’s “Hookup Culture” Podcast...

So enlighten me as to why I am allowed to go to a 5,000-person club fair where I'm amongst a Brown sea of almost entirely strangers, but...

But is there a more pointless exchange and waste of the English language than: "Oh, you grew up in [insert remote suburban town]? You...