Columns & Collected Essays

I remember my very last True Halloween.  What is a “True Halloween,” you ask?  Well, to me, it means dressing up in a costume and walking...

Every season offers up some kind of country fair that promises to make me gain weight while simultaneously upsetting my allergies. And...

My cell phone rang at 4:00 pm on Saturday, September 8 while my family and I were eating a weirdly-timed meal at Harry’s Burritos in...

My father-in-law thinks he’s a pirate. It started innocently enough, looking back.  My 10-year-old son, Andrew, and his grandfather,...

In a recent article for The Awl, author Amy Sohn explains “The 40-year-old Reversion,” in which she talks about partying regularly with...

The seeds for my midlife crisis were planted in 1992, when I graduated from college.  That was a distinctly low point in my life, because...