Month: February 2016
The Identities I Wear
"I intentionally dress up to erase the label I owned yesterday. Today, I’m a circus ringmaster; yesterday, a disco girl; the day before, an air-force-pilot-meets-janitor."
Meeting in Boston
"This was before he was my grandfather, before he was Papa. Before his visit to a new country defined his family’s future. Americanness was only a hope."
Food Stars
"'Food porn' describes an obsession with all things food, and the term has saturated the vocabulary of Americans like golden butter on thick toast."
Rolled Cabbage to Osceola
"These recipes [in my family cookbook]are a far cry both from how I understand Jewish, and how I understand Southern."
Don’t Look Back
“My mother is gifted with forgetfulness. She calls it a gift, anyway. It is a unique ability to simply forget the bad stuff.”
Tales of the Terminal
An airport enthusiast relates "experiences at airports named for supposedly great men."