*Source: TJ Since I hit the road last week, every night I’ve been waking up confused in the dark: Where am I? Who am I? Whose bed is this? Why am I not in my own bed? Where’s the bathroom? Over the past days I’ve been amazed at how nasty and grumpy people have been. I’ve been despairing at the toxicity of humanity. The airport was a sea of hisses and snarls and sneers and […]
Read moreMonth: December 2009
Mixed Emotions
Mom (now officially called “Small”) is so organized, she frightens me. She alphabetizes her spices. She writes down everything she’s cooking for dinner each night, along with the time it goes into the oven and at what temperature, and the time it gets whisked out. Opening the icebox door, she showed me a casserole (“That goes in at 5:45″), a cookie sheet of potato boats, and a tray of shrimp arranged like flower petals around […]
Read moreSilver Bullets
You know how you wake up with a phrase running through your mind for no apparent reason? Stuck in my preconscious brain today was the following: “It’s no silver bullet!” It got me to wondering: what is a silver bullet? If you find one, what do you do with it? Hold it in your hand? Find a werewolf? Keep it in your pocket till you find a werewolf? Shoot yourself? I forgot to put Christmas […]
Read moreAll The Rest Have Thirty-One
Nothing to say. Ho ho ho. Heh heh. Here are pictures. Mom’s tree, for example: Here’s Mom wearing two presents: a spider from me, and meerkats from Molly: Eleni got very emotional with gratitude when she received a generous check from her grandmother, and was consoled by said grandmother and her sister: Ma’s fella, Ed, dropped by for a brief visit: After I received abundant bounty from my daughters and my mother, we did regular […]
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