The day before the presidential election in 2016, I was feeling optimistic about our country. We had elected a Black president, and now...

My father died in 2003, and we had a complicated relationship. He had the kind of troubles that made reading Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go...

I love audiobooks. I have at least two going at all times. I listen while I’m doing dishes or cooking or driving or exercising. In my...

In the last year I have stood in line behind a guy at Walmart with a Smith & Wesson M&P on his hip and a guy open carrying a Glock at the...