A long time ago, when I was a kid playing with other kids my age, we had this thing we’d do whenever we got together. It usually started with someone saying something like, “Hey, let’s pretend we’re…” ...

Every so often I am overcome with the desire to find and reread a book I vaguely remember from my childhood. This generally requires strange web searches. “Ribbon head fell off” easily turned up “The ...

S ome people are born under a gooseberry bush — I was born under a horse chestnut tree. It was huge and magnificent, and it ...

I miss boredom. Boredom is a great hack for bringing out the inventiveness in a person. But I haven’t been genuinely bored since I was a teenager. Ever since I was a senior in high school, I’ve been ...