It’s snowing and sunny in Seattle on this particular Sunday. This, by all measures, is an oxymoron. Seattle, in December, is almost always cloudy and rainy and about 40 degrees. On rare occasions it’s cloudy and snowing and 30 degrees. But it is almost never sunny and snowing in December.
I head for a coffee [...]

When I was a high school freshman in 1983, I found myself sitting in my guidance counselor’s office after a little incident in math class. I had an attitude problem, she told me, and was being transferred to another school pending parental approval.
I fidgeted in my Converse All Stars and rubbed the goose egg [...]

Alternately: Latest reasons I should hole up in the desert and wait for the first wave of the apocalypse:
1) I am a socially awkward introvert. It’s not that I loathe people – though I do occasionally dip my toes into the pool of misanthropy – I just don’t like engaging in hours of banal conversation [...]

I worried that turning 40 would change me in ways that wouldn’t make sense based on my life experiences so far. I wondered if I would morph into someone who would feel the urge to buy polyester, take up golf, and have fond and frequent thoughts of retiring to Florida.
After all, I’ve spent most [...]