Sunscreen
Sunscreen is painless, quick to apply, and effective, and yet it almost always becomes the enemy of the summer’s day. Continue reading Sunscreen
Category: Letters to an Adopted Child
Mask
Like the Coronavirus itself, the mask has spread. Once particular, it turned ubiquitous, though not without friction. Continue reading Mask
Coaster
Once a year, the local community enveloping my college campus held a town-wide garage sale day. Continue reading Coaster
Garbage Truck
What would life look like if we did not dispose our waste? Our home would be Egypt, afflicted by great plagues. Continue reading Garbage Truck
Bookshelf
This one room stores more wisdom than my mind can retain. And most of what I am able to read in my short life, I will forget. Continue reading Bookshelf
Phone
How a phone works is similar to when you and I speak through paper cups connected by a string. There is also a string connecting my phone to Mom’s, and also to all the phones of the world. Continue reading Phone
Glasses
Lenses look like flattened ice cubes, melted enough to be translucent. Cold and dull, they seem impersonal. But the task they perform makes them a vital part of our humanity. Continue reading Glasses
Mice
One Sunday, your mom was in her workshop building a coffee table when I heard her scream, “Mouse! Mouse! Davis, there’s a mouse!” Continue reading Mice
Wrigley Field
At one point, I found myself at an intersection so full of people that I was pushed up against a corner storefront, unable to move. For a brief moment, I thought I might not escape the crowd, ever. Continue reading Wrigley Field
Baseball
A baseball mimics the layers of the world, having cowhide and cotton as crust, yarn as mantle, rubber as outer core, and compressed cork as core. Continue reading Baseball
