Stay True: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Memoir

The new items she had bought were added to the rest and belonged to her, unlike Dad’s possessions, which were expendable. The priest who buried him mentioned this in his sermon, he said that you have to ground your gaze, ground yourself in the world, by which he meant that my father had not done this, and he was absolutely right. But it was several

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When I think about the clothes and accessories I want to buy, I assess how well they match with who I believe myself to be, propelling my ascension through each strata of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.

Brands call the act of purchasing their product “converting,” counting how many “conversions” occur per day. This is perhaps my only religious ritual, ... See more