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Some things, they say, / one should not write about. I tried / to help my father comprehend / the toilet
By David MasonApril 2015The peculiar thing about adulthood is that eventually you discover there is no such thing as adulthood. There are only best guesses and increasingly permanent results.
By John FischerMarch 2015A shoebox full of correspondence, a birthday party magician, summer camp
By Our ReadersMarch 2015Only two measurable socioeconomic aspects of the parents really matter in predicting who succeeds: the parents’ education, which is the most important, and the family’s wealth, which is the second most important. By “wealth” I don’t mean how much the parents make a year. I mean net worth, including savings, property, and other financial resources.
By Ariane ConradFebruary 2015The night Cole had followed my orders, I couldn’t believe it had worked: my taking the rifle, my telling him no. But I hadn’t discovered a bold, brave part of myself. It was nothing like that. What I’d discovered was that I could pretend to be someone I was not, and that people could be fooled by this, and that this could save my life.
By Heather SellersFebruary 2015That fall my brothers and I would be sowing the fields on our own for the first time. Dad was working extra shifts at the ceiling-tile factory with the threat of layoffs ever present. One night he sat us down and said, “Wheat’ll be yours to get in the ground. Work together.” That was it.
By Doug CrandellJanuary 2015Dear Mom, As it has been six and a half years since you died, we have a lot to catch up on: marriages, births, deaths, graduations; all kinds of news, good and bad. Your little namesake started high school in September, and just a couple of weeks ago your pal Leon Katz died.
By Marion WinikJanuary 2015Being left at a gas station, staying at a Howard Johnson’s, watching the sun rise over the glistening Himalayas
By Our ReadersJanuary 2015January 2015Strangers take a long time to become acquainted, particularly when they are from the same family.
M.E. Kerr
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