Alex Dobrenko

I’m so happy to hear that these friends’ stories made you feel that way. A colleague of mine says he strives to report on people who are “extraordinary but anonymous,” and I feel that’s a perfect description of the people in my book. Which makes it hard to just share one partnership, but I’ll do it.

I am talking about holding on to one’s moral and ethical principles while replacing the rhetoric of right versus wrong or good versus evil with an approach known as relational ethics. Theorists like the philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling and the psychologist Carol Gilligan have described relational ethics as situating the self... See more

Bottom of the Curta calculator. "Made in Lichtenstein" - How often do you see this on an item? Not often!

Thank you for making this private, intimate space possible. I wanted to explore the surgery quickly and imperfectly because writing is how I make sense: putting this down, I see the order and mythology already. But writing like this isn’t for the whole, anonymous world. I really feel I belong here, in this pocket you made with me. I am so glad to... See more

Desperation is a black hole that can never be filled with what lies outside of us.