Category Essays

Essays, thoughts, musings, rants, shiny objects stolen from the outside world to distract, inform, provoke, incite and inspire.

Amanda Miller – Essay

I brought Astro back to the car and told Matt. Without blinking, he said, “You have to save Astro’s life,...

Several years earlier, when I sat in traffic court, I found a woman guilty of speeding. I believed the officer,...

Every week, no matter what, she slowly savored her donut. We remaining students were like a pack of dogs, ravishing...

The sun, unrelenting now, hammers my head. Blooming white and lilac azalea flowers spill from ceramic pots that line the...

In contrast to Kandinsky’s intricate articulation (in both theory and practice) of the spiritual purpose of form, de Kooning’s work...

There is a Zen story in which a student’s teacher has taught the student, “When drinking tea, just drink tea,”...

Called forth by my father’s words, the cave sprung up howling in my mind. The pine trees around it lashed...

When Ephron began regularly writing essays for Esquire the 1970s, she must have felt a pull toward the world of...

"Everyone will tell you that I am not a musician. That is correct. From the very beginning of my career,...

Inside my mother’s dark body, I developed lanugo and little limbs, my own fingerprints and bones. Her body recognized that...