When Mayu and I learned we were going to have a baby girl, we were each overcome with a distinct flurry of emotions. Mayu’s response, expressed in Japanese, her language of preference, was “Doshio,” which means roughly, “What am I going to do?” It wasn’t a case of first baby jitters. We already had […]
Brian McCurdy
Brian McCurdy has been writing personal essays about anything and everything for more than twenty years. He lives with his wife and two children in Michigan, where he works as a technical writer. His essays have appeared in The Iowa Review, Under the Sun, Fourth Genre, and most recently in Work Literary Magazine and The Boiler. His work was published at one time under the name Pappi Tomas.