The Morning Show

Anger is the American Condition

Hippies, Bros and Self Discovery

Confessions of a Misfit Do-Gooder

An Approximation of Beauty
Mary Richert has some sake, a size chart and a measuring tape.

Enough Grows
A brief essay on how I am still not perfect.

How are you?

The Little Blue Lines

Some Kind of Love Letter
Everything is more romantic in the summer.

The Fix
Why be a sad little white blob when you could be a happy little pink blob?

Recess
Let your inner critics out to play, and you may just find them ... almost cute.

Hunter-Gatherer, Baby!
An open letter to Francis Bigfoot.

The Tell-Tale Tooth

Anxiety Paints a Self Portrait
Is it still a disorder if it's part of who you are?

A Thousand Words: Pretty Doesn’t Cut It

Joyously Obscene
A love affair with language begins with the joy of cursing.

Comfort Words
An internal dialogue, a struggle with the self, and a moment of hushed joy.

The Things I’ve Outgrown
It's unfair to ask a child "what do you want to be when you grow up?" They want to be everything.

Behind the Mask of a Supposedly Very Nice Person
There is a very good chance the secretary is only pretending to like you.

Visceral
A gut reaction to the world at large.

Snake in the Birdhouse