Columns

Columns | dis/fluent
I Donated My Stuttering Brain to Science

As much as I hated being told that my stutter was “all in my head,” I liked being reminded that it was localized in my brain.

Nov 17, 2021
Columns | Through the Grapevine
Making the Language of Wine More Inclusive

Often, the vocabulary of wine is only accessible to people who have the time and money to learn it.

Nov 16, 2021
Columns | Muscle Memories
‘Inception’ Gave Me a Way to Dream

Again and again, I’ve lost myself to movie time. I’ve lost myself to dream time, too.

Nov 15, 2021
Columns | Grief at a Distance
My Mom, Princess Diana, and Me

At what point does someone we’ve lost become only a story we tell, more myth than memory?

Nov 8, 2021
Columns | Arts & Culture | Superhero Girlfriends Anonymous
Not All Heroes Wear Capes: Unraveling the Myth of the Black Supermom

Nora and Iris West-Allen’s fraught relationship proves that even we daughters often expect superheroics from our very human Black mothers.

Nov 4, 2021
Columns | Health | Not My Fight Song
The Script Characters with Cancer Are Told to Follow

Nora Feely on unrealistic storylines and tropes of characters with cancer, what it means to “survive,” gratitude and toxic positivity, and more.

Oct 25, 2021
Columns | Scaring Children
I Didn’t Want to Miss Baby Night

Children appear in horror all the time because to parent one is naturally terrifying.

Oct 25, 2021
Columns | Objects of Affection
What a Seashell Souvenir Tells Me About Loss

Selfishly, as a writer, I’m also worried about the seasons to come.

Oct 21, 2021
Columns | Diary of a Reverse Immigrant
In Taiwan, Running Led Me to My Community—and to Myself

A place doesn’t begin to feel like a home until it contains people you care for.

Oct 20, 2021
Columns | Half Recipes
Between Parent and Child: A Recipe for Kodomo-Don

I call it 子供丼 (kodomo-don), because it is only egg over rice. Something about it is simple, one rank lower in maturity than an adult dish.

Oct 19, 2021