Introspection
Spring Break Postcard: First Steps
Our hair and makeup are done, the bride’s dress is expertly laced up, and the purple and white flowers are bound in bouquets. Now all that’s left is waiting.
Spring Break Postcard: Tea in Doha
When choosing a restaurant overseas, the fewer English words on the menu, the better. I don't know what it was that I had for lunch that first day in Doha, Qatar, but it was delicious, a mixture of herbs and stewed chicken over rice with fresh flatbread, accompanied by traditional tea.
Spring Break Postcard: The Art of Conning
“Do you speak Spanish?” asked a voice from the shadows. It is not often that I get a chance to show off my unilingualism, so despite every alarm bell going off in my head, and every scene from Taken flashing before my eyes, I was eager to reply, “Yes.”
Spring Break Postcard: Southern Living Edition
Down a dusty highway bordered by sugar cane fields, down a long driveway edged with stately oaks, lies the land that time forgot.
Spring Break Postcard: St. Patrick’s Day in Boston
The MBTA worker who sweeps the platform at the Andrew T stop is dressed for the occasion: He wears a ...
Spring Break Postcard: On Train Tracks
There are no welcome signs when the train crosses the border, or at least none that I can see.
Spring Break Postcard: Turning the Keys
In Hemingway’s “To Have and Have Not,” the protagonist Harry Morgan, a contraband runner between the Florida Keys and Cuba, ...
Nineteen Going On Nine
The start of our night could have come straight out of one of Non Sequitur’s “Famous Last Words” strips. The ones where the last phrases people utter before they find themselves six feet under are etched on gravestones over their heads for all eternity: “Let’s go on an adventure…”
Taking Up Painter
I spent the summer before my senior year of high school walking past the same painting every day. A woman ...
Modern Love: My Secret Admired
I have always wanted a secret admirer. In high school my friend Millie had one. As we were assembling our ...
