Keith was sitting on his Adeline Street porch when Annie and I approached him one sunny Saturday in October of...
Knock, knock. A crack. Tap. More cracks. Peel—an attempt, at least. I press the egg onto the table. The translucent...
Outside the train window, the sun blurs out pink across industrial New England. Old factories and local marinas glow; people...
Cattywampus. This key is the last word I will utter tonight. I step into my H.O.C.’s dining room, a table...
I’ve been crying in the L-Dub showers. This is where I came to mourn my first graded problem set, to...
After pulling together $1.75 in change for the bus (I had decided against the forty-five minute walk, but another Yalie...
In the 1830s, a canal ran from Northampton, Massachusetts to New Haven Harbor. Horses hauled boats through water four feet...
East Rock and West Rock, the twin deities of New Haven parks, each have an attendant god. Just west of...
Last year, as “let’s grab a meal” gave way to “let’s go for a walk,” Yale students stumbled upon 43...
This weekend, I found myself at a party with twenty strangers on the roof of the Watson Center. It felt...