Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Stories exploring real people, experiences, and ideas grounded in our lived truth.

Untending

Lately, my time has gone to evaluating my energy drains. As a middle-aged person, I have learned, this is a common theme. Not because we have a collectively, synchronized drive for the mundane; our survival instincts compel us.

Improve Apartment Building Standards

We are never going to convince people to live more densely if we don't do something about the terrible building standards for multi-unit housing. I'm trapped in a lease

Who Takes Care of the Autistic Caretakers?

Society finally recognizes the benefits of autistic people, but we are saddled with responsibility at home and at work to the point of breaking. In October, I attended the five day Stanford Neurodiversity

A Body in Motion

“Hey, I thought you said rocking is bad?” The rocking is bad. That’s what I’m conditioned to believe, and what I tell my kid when she’s gone into hour three or four of sitting in her room rocking over and over and over.