December 2008
13 posts
disneyworld of the mind
new year’s revolutions
overheard conversation excerpt: what angelie wants...
“Angelie keeps reminding me, ‘Mommy, I hope Santa doesn’t forget to bring me moon sand this year.’ I don’t even know what moon sand is.”
"They played for a solid four hours..." →
Fan mail from the country band that plays at the harvard texas club’s annual chili cook-off.
bus driver
did you slip on the ice while walking to the bus stop? i can tell because of the blood that soaked through the knee of your pants. and also because of the dirt on your hands. it is apparent that you have fallen, but i’m going to ask anyway just to hear you say ‘yes’.
Catherine works at a daycare center. While reading the children a book about farm animals, she stumbled upon a photograph of a real pig. It must have been the first time she really looked at a pig. “You had to have seen its eyes… it was disgusting,” she told me, nauseated. Now, Catherine refuses to eat any pork products. This...
among other things
Dear Dave, It was two years ago, walking out through the sterile basement where no one ever is that I heard a piano playing in a dark room & it was you. I stood by the door for a while before realizing this, before walking in, before we tried to make that coffee that tasted like cold water and probably was. The sound traveled quietly out the door while I stood listening. It was like...
“Today I feel like an elderly woman who is slowly chewing the buttons off of...”