What would it be like to go to the moon, then leave it? I’ve thought about that a lot, especially in the past few days amid the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11.
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What does Elton John’s “Sacrifice” have to do with driving on the hilly streets of San Francisco? Nothing, really, but in one vivid memory, everything.
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“Leave No Trace” is the best movie I’ve seen in months and belies its title by leaving a substantial part of itself with the viewer.
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I was midway through a nearly three-hour drive after midnight. It was raining. At least one other person who was still awake noticed: the DJ at the radio station I picked up at some point after crossing into Texas.
Read More...For me, December can’t happen without my hearing certain music. One such piece is Charles Brown’s “Please Come Home for Christmas.”
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It’s hard to function without separating fact from fiction. A follow-up to my post about the greatest fact-checking lesson of my life.
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The 40th anniversary of one of the greatest tragedies in American history reminds me of the greatest lesson in fact-checking I ever had. A timely blog post nearly four decades in the making.
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As a child, I dreamed an entire commercial, or as it probably should be termed, a full-music-video PSA. I decided after all these years to write about it.
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A pause on my Monday morning to post a foreword of sorts to what I plan to be a series of blog posts celebrating and processing the first anniversary of my coming out as transgender.
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