Archive - bene dictio

you should probably have a kid

a letter to a friend

Jun 21 •

May 2024

and the people you leave behind

May 6 •

February 2024

empathy hardware

and the lack thereof

Feb 29 •

on becoming worse

Feb 1 •

December 2023

and other horrible things you do to get into stanford

Dec 19, 2023 •

November 2023

parenting off-balance

Our daughter Gloria has been really fussy lately. It starts with a whine, but escalates quickly to a full body tantrum, her arms flailing and back…

Nov 21, 2023 •

October 2023

the parks of new york and los angeles

In New York it feels like all the parks are smaller cutouts of Central Park: paved plazas with concrete fountains, lawns crisscrossed by asphalt walking…

Oct 17, 2023 •

September 2023

my mother's friends

life off of the treadmill

Sep 26, 2023 •

August 2023

gibson and inevitability

can we create, or just latch on?

Aug 16, 2023 •

please explain my life to me

Aug 3, 2023 •

July 2023

uncertainty and marriage

a personal memento mori

Jul 26, 2023 •

the time you start thinking it isn’t going to happen

Jul 21, 2023 •

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