Curiosities
On Ghosts, Gender, and Who Gets to Be Believed
Like most women and AFAB people, I’ve been trained from birth to mistrust my perceptions. Then I spent the night in a haunted house.
Finding Friendship and Community Through the World’s Hardest Quiz
The King William’s College Quiz is notoriously cryptic and uncompromising. For twenty-five years, my friend and I tried to get the perfect score.
How to Decode Your Dreams and Predict Your Future
We knew ‘Zolar’s Encyclopedia & Dictionary of Dreams’ was absurd. But, as teenagers, we were thrilled by the idea of interpreting the secret symbols of the universe.
Every House Is a Haunted House
Everything present is made of the past—the cities we inhabit and the language we use and the clothes we wear and what they make us feel.
My Father, the Slingshot Master
For my father, the slingshot seems to offer a moment of creative flight, a brief escape. It isn’t the solution, but it keeps everything balanced.
The Tiger in Harlem Who Helped Me Heal
All the buildings I walked by each day and thought nothing about now seemed like they contained the answers to questions it hadn’t occurred to me to ask.
Take You Me For a Sponge?: How My Marriage Survived Illness and Caregiving
Sea sponges lack heart, lungs, and the ability to move. They perform their ancient tasks because they must.
A Living Time Capsule Shows That to Be Human is to Be Wild
Most time capsules are enclosed underground, but this one faces the world.
Ideas Worth Sharing
We all have them, but which topics do more people care about?