The fall of 2007, someone stole my car. With my dog in it. Whoever they were cleaned out the car, and returned it, with my dog, Siddha inside. It was the most bizarre thing that has ever happened to me

I'm boarding a ship bound for the land of the living; a ship, here in the river mud it might just look like pages but look closer Pretend that these bleeding-ink storm clouds are waves frozen in time about

Do you remember when you were a child, and the only prerequisite for friendship was a similar age? My parents, being the traveling bohemian partying type, provided an unending parade of sleepover guests

The summer I was sixteen, I lived downtown. Next to the steaming,crashing, chalky green power plant on the river, the streets are set out in a grid, in a shabby little tribute to small-town America. Mossy,

Inside Wal*mart, there are 28 different types of oatmeal. 36 types of jam and jelly. 18 types of pancake syrup. Only one doesn't contain corn syrup. 103 types of cereals. 44 types of toothpaste. 11 types

Trying to explain how great it is to have kids to someone that doesn't want them is like trying to explain world travel to someone that doesn't want to leave their home state. *** Traveling is expensive.

Everyone likes to think that they are a born traveler; just give them a map and a ticket, and they’d never want to come home. But in reality, traveling isn’t for everyone. No, travel isn’t for most people—it’s

Everyone likes to think that they are a born traveler; just give them a map and a ticket, and they’d never want to come home. But in reality, traveling isn’t for everyone. No, travel isn’t for most people—it’s