Description: The ocean comes in many shades of blue, but one of my favorite kinds of blue water comes in a box. Transcript: Becca Rowan, who isn’t only a friend, but also has a great book of essays out, called Life in General mentioned that I hadn’t ...

Description: Right now, brown is the color of my foster-dog, Madison, who was adopted and returned over the week of my birthday. Transcript: My young friend Berkley asked me to talk about the color brown. I thought about all the things I associate with...

Description: My hair smells like an orange creamsicle. Transcript: My friend Selena suggested the color orange. There’s a song that my mother used to listen to when I was a kid… a Leonard Cohen song called Suzanne,

Description: To me, teal is the color of ice skating. Transcript: My friend Fran asked me to talk about the color Teal. Originally, I was going to combine it with turquoise, but I decided it would be cheating. Besides,

Description: Written for Modern Creative Life, a letter to my six-year-old self. Excerpt: You ride out to Mrs. Godoy’s house some weekends with your friend Siobhan, and sometimes you spook yourself when you stay later than you’re supposed to and the sh...

Description: At my birthday party, we played Bring Your Own Book Transcript: 20 August 2016 – Bring Your Own Book Okay, what do a cookbook, a self-help guide, a manual on writing science fiction, an RPG rulebook,

Description: Inspired by the color ‘turquoise,’ I talk about childhood in Colorado. Transcript: Mark, the Encaffeinated One, wanted me to talk about Turquoise because he likes the way it sounds. I do too. Turquoise is the color I associate with the bes...

  Transcript: So, here’s the thing. I write the content first, but when I record, I don’t typically stay exactly on-script. Most of the time, what you hear and what I wrote are fairly similar. Tonight? I kind of rambled. About a month ago,

  Transcript: For the longest time, I actually hated the color pink. When you’re five feet tall, people tend to lump you into the ‘cute’ category no matter what you do to break out of it, so for most of my life, I was given pink clothes, pink toys,

  Transcript (excerpt): With the flip of a calendar page (or a swipe of finger on a smartphone) July is gone for another year, and it is August, my month. The first summer month when, even though the sun is still reluctant to set,