Life closely resembles a giant game of Whac-A-Mole, because if you actually fix one thing, something else inevitably goes wrong.

Maybe all the things that are truly beautiful in our lives are things that we shouldn’t even try to hold on to.

Books have a special ability to transport the mind into unfamiliar settings and lives foreign to our own.

I had heard and experienced the often strange and terrifying force of sudden change, but this instance in particular struck me as both odd and weirdly...

Although Boston has always been a presence in my life, it still seems like an unattainable dream.