lonely

Love made me leave behind a place right near my parents in Houston to join my partner in a town without a single restaurant.I’d first met my partner a decade earlier, but we’d reconnected more recently — while long-distance — over a shared love of stories, coffee, and baseball.From the…

I was initially resistant to the self-checkout kiosks at my local grocery store when they were introduced a few years ago. It didn’t take long, however, for me to start choosing those kiosks when the regular check-out lines were long. By that time, New Jersey had banned plastic bags, so…