Month: April 2010

You Ain’t Nuthin’ but a Groundhog

Don’t you hate when you’re trying to summon a word and all you can remember is its ending? Makes it hard to look up. “It’s something –ity.” I wonder if there exists a word reference for people with backwards brains like mine. I love this picture so much that I’m naming an entire post after it. Coincidentally, I just got an e-mail from Small, in which she refers to the groundhog as a whistlepig. I’d […]

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My Life in Venn

Today out in my yard I saw a scarlet cardinal sunbathing atop a mass of golden forsythia near a swath of new, emerald grass. It would have been an even more interesting sight had the bird been reclining on its feathery back, wearing shades and sipping a Mai Tai. But this is the Northeast, where birds are traditional. I cut class tonight for the first time. It was only Spanish, which isn’t for credit. Instead […]

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The Doughnut of Brattleboro

This ain’t Turin and no one’s got a shroud, but if you look hard enough, you may see sacred apparitions in our bakery products. At least that’s what Genevieve suggested at Dunkin’ Doughnuts the other day, and I see no reason to doubt her. I’m sorry for not having written but by the end of this you’ll wish for another stretch of postlessness. I’m still broken in the aftermath of the incident with my professor(s). […]

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