Self Aware

A version of this essay appears in the final chapters of Figuring. As if classifying platonic relationships weren’t complex enough…

We live in a culture that fears the entropic insecurity of aging, treats it as a disease to be treated…

“That which exists, exists to be lost and treasured,” writes Lisel Mueller in her short, wonderful poem about what makes…

“This life you live is not just a part of your whole life, but in a sense it is complete,”…

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Your identity is the story of why you are – a selective account of the unexpected events between the birth…

It is both a fear and a pity that we know ourselves imperfectly and know each other at all –…

One day at dawn in September on the verge of an important life transition, I was sitting on the dock…

John Updike wrote in his memoir, “Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead.…

“To be nobody-but-you – in a world where you're doing your best, day and night, to be everybody else –…