Free Range Kid

Dear Grown-Up Nora: Lots of time has passed since my last assessment of you, which was when you (we) were eight. [...]

I once envied the lucky critics able to reflect at length on the works of Proust or Dickens with near-casual ease. [...]

Today I’m here to address a life-long fear I’ve carried with me from year to year, from country to country, from [...]

From: Satan, Post Office Box 666, New Jersey Turnpike (please leave pitchfork shipments with red-uniformed concierge) To: Pet Peeves Department (PPD) [...]

I was listening to a podcast with Robert Downey Jr. the other day. He gained worldwide notoriety for playing Iron Man [...]

God's HR & Assorted Species department has received billions of reviews of COVID-19. Here are two recent comments. Warning: Contains lots [...]

In the days leading up to the U.S. presidential election, my mental scenarios weren't exactly cheerful. Riots because Donald Trump won. [...]

I had to do it. I don’t care who knows. I can’t take any more of this questioning. I admit it. [...]

When I was a little girl we had a cassette recorder. I’m not sure if it actually recorded anything since it [...]

I’ll start by saying that I'm a white woman of middle-class privilege. The privileges have taken many forms but I've never [...]

There’s a beetle climbing on the screen of my window. On the outside, I make sure. I turn back to my [...]

Last week I watched "Miss Americana," a documentary about singer Taylor Swift. While I’ve never been a diehard fan, I’ve enjoyed [...]