She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes

Ninety-nine percent of all land animals eaten or used to produce milk and eggs in the United States are factory farmed. So although there are important exceptions, to speak about eating animals today is to speak about factory farming.

As a writer, putting words on the page is how I pay attention.

I missed you even when I was with you. That’s been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing.

In the morning, when the nothing vase casts a something shadow, like the memory of someone you've lost, what can you say about that?

Why is taste, the crudest of our senses, exempted from the ethical rules that govern our other senses?

When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.