Archive for June, 2007

Boxes of Letters

Thursday, June 14th, 2007

I first met Jerria Bates* the way I met all of my friends in elementary school: I was sitting alone at a classroom table pretending to do something interesting, and one day she appeared and asked if I wanted to be her friend. It was the fourth grade, and we had all just read “The [...]

Frisbee Golf and Peek-a-Boo

Sunday, June 10th, 2007

Pictures taken during three hours of frisbee-golf playing in beautiful, meadowy and wooded terrain: three. Pictures taken of friends’ cat once we returned to Worcester: twenty-one.

UFOs in late afternoon

Oh hai mz Banks I am America’s Next Top model plz?

I was in a conundrum about which out of two pictures of Peek-a-Boo to post. They [...]

Peace and Quiet at Midnight

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007

I’d snuck into the laundromat just before closing, a habit I’ve picked up to avoid The Racket. Half of the fluorescent lights had already been switched off: the empty space flickered with a sickly, thin light, and the floors — usually thundering with running children, reality TV shows, and hundreds of machines churning — now [...]