Catherine Smart Writes

These weren’t the great wracking sobs from the night the accident happened, but the kind of crying where your heart constricts and your...

I’m about to take a trip. A trip on my own, for the first time in (counts fingers on both hands). I’m flying to Germany to visit family...

While assiduously not grading MacBeth exams, I found myself scrolling through the internet looking for, well, pug memes (if you must...

ACT I SCENE I. A basement place, a Thursday after school. Fluorescent lights flicker. Enter THREE TEENAGERS with bags of chips, sodas,...

Our youngest rugrat, Facetiming Dad before school to show him a Lego creation Twenty years ago today, I was cutting the cake at my...