Sometimes I think we are forgetful on purpose. We forget to pay a parking ticket, forget to return a favorite library book, forget to unpack a suitcase after a vacation. We forget to cut him out of all of those framed pictures, we get in the car and forget where we wanted to go until [...]
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July 14, 2009
houses are built to live in
It’s quiet in the house tonight. So quiet that I fish through a box in the tool shed out back and dig out an old AM radio and tune it to a static-filled news broadcast just to hear noise. The small house seems huge as I walk from one empty room to the next soaking [...]
July 7, 2009
a desk job
The interview did not go well. Actually, that could be the world’s biggest understatement. For lack of a better way to put it and lack of the energy it takes to think more eloquently, it sucked. It sucked a whole lot.
This wasn’t an important job interview. Just a part-time publishing assistant that I thought might [...]
June 23, 2009
like a clock during a thunderstorm
The thunder shook the windows and for the first time in more than five weeks, I was homesick.
My grandmother wore a path in the carpet as she paced up and down the hallway muttering about the flowers and the patio furniture and the storm siren and her car windows and the radio station while I [...]
