“I used to live here.” In our fragmented world of third person omniscience, stranger words are rarely spoken with such abandon. Mobility has become one of life’s most imposing axioms, redefining community and putting home on an auction block of opportunity. With every move, we check another brief lifetime off of our to-be lists, making [...]

The perfect bowl of grits is a lot like a bowl of melted butter with stuff inside it. That stuff is grits.

I don’t know exactly when I stopped caring about video games (save the occasional evening of Rock Band, Mario Party or the original Super Smash Bros), but the time of death wasn’t far from the day I played my first German board game.

During my years as an undergrad at UC Berkeley, I developed a love [...]

“Hey, stranger.”
The words crept out in a whisper as the bedside lamp turned on. I laid the back of one hand against my eyelids and circled the other around her waist. I mumbled something about the A-Team, that being the only thought that came naturally to me at this point of the night.
She rolled off [...]