“When you love a place that connects you to your past, it can be hard to believe that it may not connect you to your future as well. And it’s easy to think that if you once belonged somewhere, all you have to do is come back to that place, and you won’t ever feel cut loose in the world.”
— Soda Shop Time Machine (Garden & Gun Magazine)
A few more selections:
The New York Times
I’m So Excited for 40th Grade
The Great Fortune of Ordinary Sadness
To the Type-A Person Having a Meltdown
Hard Knock Life: What Are The Turtles Telling Me?
Shopping for a Car — And a Teenager’s Future
My Adventures in Accountability
Sing, O Muse, of the Mall of America
Wishing Away the Wish List
The Power of Place
How to See More Of Your Best Friends? Move Away
When the Honeymoon Is Over: Settling Into Real Life
In Praise of Name Tags
Homework and Consequences
“Hookup Line”
And Then the Dog Died
Finding Friends in a New Town
Telling the Kids: We’re Moving
Raising — and Understanding — the Class Clown
Rekindling a Love for Dinner
The Washington Post
This Novel Has a Cat Narrator — And It Had Me at Meow
Look to the Lessons of Theater Kids
Learning From Our Mistakes
Teaching Girls to Save Their Own Lives
This Shop’s Walls Can Talk (In 140 Characters)
The Paris Review
The Case for Seasonal Sentimentality
Lit Hub
Why, Exactly, Do We Have Subtitles on Books?
Surviving the Ordinary: Why We Need Memoirs of Regular Lives
Stealing Stories, Book Tours, and Staying Off Twitter
Girl Scout Heart, Henry Miller Mind
Garden & Gun Magazine
Southern Women: Lee Smith, Storyteller
Expand Your Southern Canon
The Los Angeles Times
It’s Not the Celebrities You Mourn For
Salon
Wearing Someone Else’s Scrubs: The Comfortable Cotton of the Road Not Taken
Publishers Weekly
Think Before You Link
Brevity
An Egg-Poaching Pep Talk That Is Definitely Not a Metaphor for a Writer’s Career
Bustle
Stay With Me Explores How Infertility and Loss Can Test a Marriage
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
Literary Pet Names Using Puns Unworthy of Their Namesakes
MORE Literary Pet Names Using Puns Unworthy of Their Namesakes
A Usage Guide to Timely Phrases Beginning With “As” and Their Lowercase Abbreviations
