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Coffee spoons

I told my therapist that the reason I was going crazy was because of how many stories I read everyday that consisted mostly of conversations between […]

The song remains the same

In just over thirteen hours, her face will brim with unalloyed delight. She will strut to the center of the stage with pursed lips and […]

Playing house

I told him, maybe on our first date, that I didn’t want to get married. It was my first real date ever, or the first […]

You two stay with the bear

My father collected stuffed animals in his old age. I didn’t realize it right away. I figured the plush Siamese cat and bottlenose dolphin on […]

Paper bullets

On February 6th, 1988, the New York Times typeset a headline: ADRIAN WILSON, 64, PRINTING TEACHER AND BOOK DESIGNER.

Roost

I remember I bought a blue and white striped shirt in the months before that summer, and I remember standing in my room in cold gray March and trying it on.

What if?

  Imagine if I became pregnant tomorrow and wanted to keep the child. Besides having to explain myself to my parents, what would my next […]

Along for the ride

It wasn’t working for Skylar Thompson, none of it. Not her parents’ relationship, not her friends at elementary school, not Vyvanse, the daily medication her […]

Putting a typeface to the name

In the late 90s, Yale’s visual identity had a case of multiple personality disorder. Yale’s branding—seen on everything from its admissions brochures to its signs […]

Twenty-four quotations about the Yale Book of Quotations

“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.” –Francis Bacon, Of Studies   “Dictionary, n. […]

Hillary, no last name necessary

So I’ve heard Hillary Clinton has Yale in the bag. She’s a Yale Law school grad (’73), people practically sold their kidneys for tickets to […]