Boxes

It's Tax Day! Here's a story about what I kept, and what somebody more famous kept, and why it matters. Also... 7 other things worth your time.

When I graduated from college long ago, we had only a few hours to move out of campus housing.

I packed quickly and haphazardly. This included reams and reams of paper, stuffed into boxes: class assignments, job applications, random half-finished creative projects, all kinds of stuff.

Someday, I presumed, as I grew older, life would become less hectic.

I…