Steven Ivory

Steven Ivory: What I’ve Figured Out Thus Far

*Fresh out of the womb, we’re as pure and innocent as we’ll ever be in this life. Then immediately, our emotional …

*Some in Washington want to ban TikTok on grounds that the app, birthed in China, gives its creators undue access to the …

*If you take nothing else from what you read here–if you get no further than this sentence–know that …

*One Friday evening in 1971 after an exhausting day of class-cutting at Douglass High, I went with classmate Marvin …

*It was just after 10 AM on a typically spectacular, cloudless Los Angeles Saturday when Marla backed out of the …

*Outer space is filled with stuff: Empty fuel tanks, giant O-rings, dead satellites, crystalized human urine—that’s …

*In the wake of the mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, Uvalde, Texas, Tulsa, Oklahoma, and elsewhere, you’ve no doubt …

*Step aside Marvel and D.C. There’s a new protagonist in the universe of superheroes. He’s real, not fantasy, and his …

*I was headed for the kitchen when the network TV news anchor shifted to a somber tone. “Warning,” he said, his …

*While in bed channel-surfing one pandemic evening, I came across an episode of “Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.,” the 1960s comedy …

*The Delta variant. Politics. Afghanistan. Hurricanes. The general uncertainty of life itself. Sometimes, it feels like …

*To those of you who, for whatever reason, refuse to get the Covid vaccine: I know exactly where you’re coming from. I …

*I’m not much of a handy man. If it can’t be remedied with the jiggle of a handle, it’s just plain out of luck. When …

*At the beginning of a horse race, during that fateful walk to the starting gate, the horses, the jockeys, their crews, …

*“He’s back from New York,” she murmured into her cell. Forty-something and masked, she slowly pushed her shopping cart …