Writing

Manuel

Essays ·
2026
The official unemployment rate in July was 4.1 percent. There is another number — 24.9 percent — and it describes a different country…
Essays ·
2026
My son eats fruit from our farm without asking me whether it is safe. A farmer and father on pesticides, trust, and what we ask children to believe about the food we hand them…
For Children ·
2022
It began, as most real adventures do, with questions. A children’s story of a river journey written with a six-year-old son, on the questions children ask and the answers a father hopes to leave them with…
For Children ·
2017
Sixteen hours of labor, two hours of pushing, and then at 5:37 in the morning he was here. An essay about the day everything divided into before and after…