Joshua Bowers Eno

We were packed into the high school auditorium, and Roger was retiring. His method of celebration surprised me.

These were the most amazing socks I’d ever seen in a store. I was still in the men’s section, right?

For most of my teenage years, my family lived in a house with a beautiful view. Of tombstones.

My daughter is fascinated by robots. Let’s face it — most people are. But are they ever more than wires and circuits?

What if you hosted a men’s group and you got “man” instead of “men”?

It was evening, and the summer air was folding into dusk. And I was running barefoot in the grass.

Sometimes you think what you have just isn’t good enough. I’ve been there. When I became a homeowner, my dad gave me a drill for Christmas. It had a cord. Well, that was fine, right? I probably wasn’t going to need to use it very far away from an outlet, right?