Sons
I Can't Spend Time With My Dad, but Doing Crosswords Over the Phone Helps
Working on puzzles side-by-side has always been a ritual for us. Even with quarantine keeping us apart, we found a way to hold on to it.
Adopting Potential Werewolves Is Routine Business for Argentine Presidents
While a werewolf Bar Mitzvah might be a joke on "30 Rock," it's also apparently a real thing that just happened in South America.
The Families of Colombia's 'False Positive' Victims Are Still Fighting for Justice
I recently visited Soacha, a poor neighborhood outside of Bogota, to hear about Colombia's 'false positives' scandal. The scandal has its roots in the country's 50-year civil war. In an effort to increase their kill numbers, government soldiers...
They Still Call Me Daddy
Marcus was nine and Nick was four when their dad explained that he was going to start a new life as a woman. In several conversations, Dio Dipasupil, married and in his early 40s, would sit down with his boys at the family’s home in New Jersey and...
My Father at the End
I did not talk to my father for most of the last year he was alive. It was a form of self-preservation.