Family
The Funk of Poverty
My poverty is the most dangerous kind of poverty. It is religious. This is what I know, what my family and community know.
How Watching ‘Supermarket Sweep’ Gives Me Hope After Loss
Supermarket Sweep is what gets me the closest, catapulting me back to a time when we were alive, together.
A Family History of Fear
I got a D in math and my sister got cancer. These aren’t causalities, only things that happened one right after the other.
My First Taste of Protest In a Thai Roadside Café
Will it challenge how they feel about the kingdom? The nationalistic pride of what it means to be Thai?
I Love You by Remembering What You Hate: A Recipe for Herby Salad
I find joy in being let into the idiosyncrasies of someone’s taste.
My Father Tried to Preserve Nature—And the Best of Him—In His Writing
My father has been gone for so long now. There’s nothing for me to escape anymore. I read his book to try to believe him again.
We’re the Last Good Girls Alive
Who will remember a girl’s pain when the evidence disappears?
Who Actually Wins (and Keeps) the HGTV Dream Home?
As of January 2021, only six of the first twenty-one sweepstakes winners were able to live in their Dream Home for longer than a year.
Even in a Queer Marriage, There’s the Familiar Trap of Gender Roles
The wall that divided us in those early weeks of my first child’s infancy became a continued separation.
How to Teach Your Child About a Disappearing World
My daughter understands object permanence—the idea that what vanishes continues to exist. As the planet warms, I worry I may have oversold the concept.