I’ve had some interesting folks live in the apartment across the breezeway. When I first moved in, it was a group of young, black guys and I’m 90% sure they were drug dealers. I came to this conclusion not based on racial stereotype, but based on the fact that late at night, nearly every night, […]
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this is not Nam
I think it’s the water. Or, not the water exactly, but the tube that pipes the water into the industrial coffee maker we have in the kitchen at work. Possibly it’s the Maxwell, but I’d like to give the company more credit than that. Either way, whatever the cause, the women who drink the office […]
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Homer Collyer took care of the funeral arrangements. It was not entirely unexpected, when Mother passed, and her funeral arrangements seemed like a simple and manageable task compared to the inheritance. Homer knew that he and his brother Langley would still be dealing with all they’d inherited long after they’d dealt with the grief surrounding […]
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So much is happening at once. Just today John with an H asked if my address was the same and just today I discovered some patches of nasty mold and a sizable drip coming from my upstairs neighbors’ washing machine. It’s spread to both sides of the wall and one patch in particular looks like […]
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It’s unexpected, but I fall in ephemeral love with you all the time. I sit at my computer, imagining my music is coming from your local radio station, and all of a sudden, I’m so in love with you. Or, more precisely, in love with you and your city. I love to picture you set […]
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Oh goodness. Let me first say that I’m not entirely an unfeeling ice princess with a cold stone for a heart. I am sympathetic to the wife and the kids, and in a way, I’m also even sympathetic to Mark and Maria. We all get carried away and lose perspective—especially in intense and encompassing “impossible […]
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… in which our heroine compares Creed to American Idol and, indirectly, monster-truck rallies. So it’s like this… this one time, I bought a Creed cd. I’m not going to bother defending this action, since the crux of my argument kind of lies in the ephemeral, simple beauty of not having to. A few weeks […]
Read more...scatter my ashes in Lyman Lakes OR romanticizing the stone
There are certain moments that, when you are right in the middle of them, you know you’re going to remember forever. You can feel yourself filing everything away—the smell, the sounds, the people you’re with, the way the light hits the trees—manually forming the memory so you can bring it back up in its entire […]
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Don’t tell my landlord, but I’ve got quite a menagerie in the apartment. Two cats and a handful of reptiles on indefinite loan from Sarah. There are two ball pythons—a male and female named Kyle and Beatrix respectively—and a leopard gecko named Trace. The gecko eats crickets, which other than the smell, is a diet […]
Read more...Clifford Takes a Trip
“Dear Katie, I have decided on what I’m going to do: I am going to take the train.” So began a 2:30am email from Cliff and our adventure through the tri-state area of the Ohio River Valley. I picked up Cliff from the Amtrak station in Indianapolis around midnight on Friday, and then turned around […]
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