I’m a chameleon. I’ll charm your parents, then make a quip about listless baby-boomers. I hate cops, but serve them lunch with a smile on my face. I engage people with third-wave feminist theory, then stay silent when folks cat-call. I slip easily into a hip-hop dialect, and drop it when I’m in someone’s office. […]

Walking out of an eye exam today, I had to ask myself, how is this going to work after the fall? I imagined all the paperwork behind the ordering and restocking of contact lenses and eyeglass frames, the association that got together to decide the things a person needs to know to be certified as […]