The Name is the Game
WHEN MY DAUGHTER was still in the womb I prepared, like most incipient parents, to find a name for my child. I didn’t want to summon inspiration, like a snake charmer summoning the snake, since that...
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I USED TELL PEOPLE that if I ever said I was interested in golf, that they should take a two-by-four piece of lumber and beat me with it until the demon was exorcised. Unholy possession by an evil...
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My daughter has a tiny threadbare blanket on her bed, which she uses to wrap a small stuffed dog named Goldie. The blanket is tissue paper thin after seventeen years of rough use, most of which took...
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