Archives
Twenty
Posted on February 26, 2019 Leave a Comment
At 7 a.m., in the nearly empty parking lot of a well-maintained office building – a building which, by the way, had a contract with Metropolitan Flower Exchange for regular placement and maintenance of seasonal plants, as well as a super named Joe, whose broken Italian-English often left us mystified – I sat and read […]
Nevertheless, She Persisted
Posted on February 5, 2018 Leave a Comment
Many years ago, there was a blonde nurse who was a member at the pool club in my town. She used to arrive in the late summer mornings to relax by her cabana before work. Around 2 p.m., she would change into her smart uniform in that cabana, like a superhero in a phone booth, […]
Winning
Posted on January 13, 2016 Leave a Comment
It isn’t really about winning the money. You know that, right? Yeah, sure, it’s great fun to imagine all of the ways you might live out the rest of your life spewing ridiculous demands, like to be surrounded by only white furniture and carpeting, or to wear a brand new pair of shoes every single […]
Is There Dodgeball in Heaven?
Posted on October 9, 2014 Leave a Comment
On Sunday mornings, my mother teaches a C.C.D. class (that’s Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, for all you non-Catholics; not Central City Dump, for anyone who may or may not have attended St. Mary’s C.C.D. anytime between 1977 and 1981) to a group of first graders. They’re a pretty tough crowd. They need a lot of […]
Beautiful Day
Posted on June 18, 2014 Leave a Comment
The strange thing about memory is its selectivity. How you can lose days and weeks and months of your life, not remembering anything particularly at all about them, moving forward with a clean slate, erased periodically only by the act of time passing. What you did on any of those given days dissolves somewhere into […]
Wisdom
Posted on March 24, 2014 2 Comments
Le Terrace Club was a private pool where I spent a bunch of summers growing up. For those of you who are wondering, yes, it’s THAT Le Terrace Club. I mention the true name only because I’m not going to hide the fact that we were members, and it’s relevant to the extent that it […]
Settling
Posted on March 14, 2014 Leave a Comment
The common goal of just about everyone I know is getting what they want. We are all striving to get what we want. We are encouraged endlessly by internet lists, quotes, catchy memes, and inspirational Facebook statuses to go out and get what it is we came for in life. Our days are brimming over […]
A Girl by the Bridge 
Recent Comments