Built circa 1790 and in the family since 1905, my beloved house is now at a pivotal juncture in its long history.
The Boston Globe
Edited by Kathy Horan
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The Monk’s Tale
Remembering my Uncle Bill, a Catholic monk and a scholar who left the church to spend his last 30 years in the French Pyrenees, tending his garden and translating Thucydides from Greek into Latin.
Outside
Edited by Elizabeth Hightower
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The Sleepover
A Mother’s Day essay remembering my mom, Barbara Donahue (1929–2017), and my favorite punk band, The Plasmatics (1977–1983).
The Washington Post Magazine
Edited by David Rowell. Illustration by Maggie Chiang.
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Painting the Fence
The joys and agonies of maintaining the picket fence at my family’s ancient home in New Hampshire.
Yankee
Edited by Ian Aldrich. Illustration by Cindy Rizza.
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My Grandson, The Writer
The summer I turned 18, I lived with my grandmother in our family’s rambling summer home in New Hampshire’s Lakes Region. It was an unusual housing scenario, but somehow the experience kind of launched my writing career.
The Smart Set
Edited by Jason Wilson.
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The Backyard Expedition
When my daughter was almost six, I thought it would be a good idea to take her kayaking down Oregon’s Tualatin River.
National Geographic Adventure
Edited by Mark Jannot. Photo by Brown W. Cannon III.
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A Glimpse of Eden
In the love letters he wrote to his sweetheart, my grandfather extolled the joys of fighting in World War I. In one 1918 note from Paris, he wrote, “The beauty here is punctuated by the boom of long range shells (one just went off in the front of the hotel), but no one seems to mind, unless they are actually hit.”
The Washington Post Magazine
Edited by David Rowell. Photo by Michael Grimm.
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Drive Thru Church
Pray Here Ministries’ Rick Schneberger offers absolution in a gravel parking lot on the strip mall fringes of Portland.
DoubleTake
Edited by Rob Odom. Illustration by Charles Anderson.
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The Old Ball Game
My great-great-uncle, Tim Donahue, played catcher for the major league Chicago Colts in the 1890s. When he came to bat once in 1899, according to the Chicago Tribune, “It appeared as though the select party on top of a neighboring building would jump off in excess of delight.” Edited by Bob Hicks.
The Oregonian
Edited by Bob Hicks.
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