Dad’s leftover stew, the kids’ Lunchables, coffee and pie with a friend

We have food apartheid, a system of segregation that relegates certain people to food abundance and others to food scarcity. If you’re a black child in America, you are twice as likely to go to bed hungry tonight as a white child.

The Crandells participated in 4-H the way we did everything: bargain hunting, doing odd jobs, and keeping costs and desires to a minimum.

Tonight, as you undress, I watch your wondrous flesh that’s swelled again, the way a river…

Two grenades, the NAACP, a changed man at the farmers’ table

A mountain of sand, a game of cops and robbers, a pod of humpback whales