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True Love Will Find You: My Afternoon in Daniel Johnston’s Dining Room
Johnston’s instrumental arrangements and shrill vocal style satisfied a primitive urge in me.
A Room of One’s Own: Sharing (Brain) Space with My Baby
“My former home office, with its glorious door separating it from our bedroom, is now our son’s domain.”
Passing for Human #10: How It Happens
For me there is always the question, “Did I offend?”
‘The Shining,’ Domestic Violence, and the Architecture of Horror
“Horror isn’t in the gothic and ghostly, but in the people we’re taught to love. Horror is close to home.”
On Anxiety, Writing, and Taking the Nature Cure
The nature or “West cure” was developed in the nineteenth century to treat men with anxiety. Women were sent to bed.
What Would Captain Janeway Do?: On Depression, My Lost Year, and Star Trek: Voyager
How rewatching ‘Star Trek: Voyager’ shed new light on a lost year of my life.
Your Name Is a Blessing to Stand On
“We didn’t know that where we came from, we named like praying.”
‘The Big Sick’ Is About Dating and Romance, but It’s Also About Parents and Children
On ‘The Big Sick,’ dating, arranged marriage, and the hard-to-break scripts we use when communicating about love.
Crushes, Flings, and Exes: On Writing About the Men Who Don’t Stay
“Women writers throughout history not only accepted transience through amorous affairs, but delighted in them.”
How We Struggle to Grieve in Our Chinese Christian Family
“When the missionaries came with their Good News, they also declared that what we’d had before was bad.”