This world is wrong, but it's the only one we have.

Sadness is a security blanket that's not actually secure.

This is my first birthday since I cut my father out of my life.

I don't know if you know this, but you should never, ever use a phone or any other piece of electronics around your children. They will t...

Being an introvert has not, relatively speaking, caused that many problems for me. I have no doubt that I would be more successful as far...

Where to even begin? I cried. I cried even though I “knew” that Quentin Coldwater’s death would not be permanent. Alice came back from th...

Note: This is from a year ago. My son still has the same best friend. My son is four. He is as white as they come. His current cartoon fi...

I stopped myself. I almost answered with the first thing that came into my head, but made a change before anything came out of my mouth. ...

I really am. I don’t mean artist as in a person who draws things. I mean artist as in person who creates art. Periodically, I think about...

I wrote this a few years ago, when our oldest son was only a few years old and when he was our only son, not our oldest. It's all still a...

I mostly ordered records from Subpop and Dischord, since I knew I liked the Afghan Whigs and I knew I liked Jawbox (although I'd first h...

Like most kids, I grew up listening to Top 40. I listened to Casey Kasem’s (and later, Rick Dees’) countdown show every Sunday, if I cou...

Having kids leads to some strange changes in your life. Like listening to hip hop. I was born in the mid-70s, so suggesting that I’m a ch...

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, eighteen-year-old Robert Stuart had a decision to make: keep working at the steel mill in Warren, Ohio...