In January, still enamored with having steady health insurance, I decided to go and see what an orthodontist would say to my teeth. Now in a family of Germans and Scottish, I came out with a hint of Austin Powers teeth. Both my parents had neatly...

It seems that there is a mythic type of parent-child relation, the time when the child realizes that the parent is very much human and fallible. That it can be a bit of a disappointment in what you’ve built as a small frame for the world. Not that I...

For me, it never fails that the reflection of a past year tends to be a matter of thinking about how random life actually can be and that the best laid plans really can be even better than what you thought they might be from the onset. I’m approaching...

Her face lifted and brightened as I approached the counter and I gave my best wary smile. “I’d, um, like the – “ “WOW. It has been a long time.” I focused on the woman. She was a small woman with blonde hair pulled starkly back into a short...