The Trolley Song

The sky was filled with dark, juicy clouds threatening to split apart into storms at any moment, but the top was still down on the Miata when Lucy arrived to pick me up. This morning, like most mornings, Lucy was blasting Judy Garland through the Miata’s exhausted stereo. “CLANG CLANG CLANG went the trolley!” she […]

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gibs!

This weekend I played Sims 3 for the very first time. I started by creating a replica couple named Elsbe and Trenfon that were as alike to us as I could manipulate, using only 5 personality traits. Elsbe liked to cook and read, and was a vegetarian. Trenfon was a friendly computer whiz, also a […]

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locavores

We got some beautiful carrots with the greens attached in our CSA box this week, along with some beets that I initially mistook for radishes, a zucchini, a cucumber that I initially mistook for another zucchini (it was dark, okay?), some green beans, a big bunch of basil, and an onion.  We also got our […]

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Nightswimming

I was sitting at my desk focused on some regular and trivial task at work, when the first few chords of Nightswimming came through my headphones, simple and incredibly familiar. In a flash, my heart rate changed, my breath caught in my chest, and I was transported back to a very specific place and time, […]

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