Cucumbers are not for drinking. And yet they keep turning up in liquid form. Imagine going out to a nice restaurant with your family. Maybe Dad got a promotion, or your brother’s team won state. You sit down to a table set with napkins folded into roses and peonies unfolding in a vase in the...
I grew up 2,325 miles from where I live. I don’t have that number memorized. Google told me, after I entered my two home addresses—one in Hillsdale, Michigan and one in Newberg, Oregon. The number popped up along with two warning symbols followed by yellow text: “This road has tolls,” and “Your destination is in...
Most of the recent debate about immigration has focused on illegal immigrants. Now it turns out that we’re arguing about legal immigration too. Everyone has heard about the Dreamers—the undocumented immigrants whose parents brought them to the United States as children. Just a few months ago, President Donald Trump conspicuously didn’t renew Deferred Action for...
“Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.” A harsh message for 400 eager graduates—but maybe the one we need the most. It’s a line from The Princess Bride, a movie that my generation grew up watching and rewatching. It was my favorite movie as a child. Nothing else quite catches that...