Cafezinho

It's four inches long, nearly useless, and it has survived three moves. The good pen didn't make it.

A packed refrigerator should feel like safety. Instead it sits there, counting down, asking something of you every time you open the door.

Somewhere between yes and no sits a small phrase we use constantly, and it rarely means what it says.

Why we say 'just popping out' for a five-minute errand, and what that little sentence is really doing.

The first bite is never the real one — and that says something about how we judge almost everything we make.

Some disagreements never move, and yet we keep having them — which suggests they were never really about the thing we're arguing about.