The imagination of children is a powerful yet perplexing phenomenon. Those who’ve spent any significant time with kids, or even who remember their own childhood well, can speak to the extensive creative ability of society’s youngest members. And in raising…
When I was a young child in Visalia, in California’s Central Valley, we had a wisteria vine growing in the side yard. It would grow uncontrollably in spring and summer, sprouting thin green tendrils seemingly overnight and looping them around…
My father’s wake was three days ago. I’m still in varying versions of shock and horrified grief, often in an alternating cycle. But many of you were unable to attend the wake, either in person or online, and have asked…
My wonderful, loving father died of a heart attack on Friday night at the age of 74. He was in his beautiful home, with his wife of 44 years, talking to me on the phone when he collapsed. I am…
Brownie the Rabbit (~April 2013 – July 20, 2022) Last night, surrounded by her family at Mt. Laurel Animal Hospital, Brownie crossed the rainbow bridge. She had a long full life that spanned at least three states and multiple loving…
I have a new job, and have for the last forty days, helping faculty in Drexel’s School of Public Health write and submit their grants, keep their grant budgets straight, report on their research when it’s over. It’s rewarding and…
The Seattle Mariners are three years older than I am. I’m older than anyone on their roster by four years, but most of the team is much younger. Their manager, Scott Servais, was in Little League when two new franchises,…
This week, the award-winning print literary journal upstreet published my list essay “The Thirteen Mythological Ways I Almost Died.” The essay strings together dangerous and frequently retold moments from my life, from near-death experiences in infancy to my suicide attempts…
Long time, no see. At least here. If you’d told me that I would have a child and it would be almost three months before any mention of it appeared on this website, I would have thought you were bonkers.…
Lunch Ticket, the literary and art journal from the MFA community at Antioch University Los Angeles, just published Storey’s essay “Ambiguity” in their new Summer/Fall 2020 issue. This is an exploration of his life with gender, through a chronological series…