How could we bear to live here then; These large green lawns spilling into curbs, winding roads the flatness of it all strip malls, Kohl’s, DSW mailboxes at the end of each driveway some with a little painted bird Sweet mother of God I am 26 years old and Hairphernalia is still here! Best Cleaners [...]
We were enjoying our billionth screening of Lost In Translation when I stuck my fork into a container of Drunken Udon noodles, hit a particularly succulent green bean and a two-out-of-three pepper rating shot directly into my right eyeball. “Bwah!” I cried. “Bwah!” “What?” Jurvis cried back. “What? What’s wrong?” “Bwah!” I ran into our [...]
I am apparently entering a time of my life when I have anxiety issues again. I’ve decided, this time, to just write about it. It’s happened enough — and passed enough — that I feel simultaneously detached from the situation as it happens; I can both observe and experience it. And maybe someone else will [...]
Prologue: We have always compared ourselves to ugly ducklings. I. After the swans had surrounded us we headed home Grabbed bicycles and adjusted helmet straps and got back on the trail, to land, smack dab eventually in our kitchen As if all of this had been nothing out of the ordinary. I said, “Did you [...]
Jurvis and I visited his family in Connecticut this weekend, and when other plans fell through (ocean! summer homes! sunburns!), I went with his sister and parents to the weekend Moosup flea market. It was the second flea market I’d ever been to; also, the first in around ten years. First score: the Agfa Optima [...]