I only met her twice. The second time she was older, second or third grade, busy with a baseball or softball game. She didn’t remember me very well. She was excused: The only other time I met her—the first time—she was only four or five. But while she wasn’t able to […]

It’s hanging around, in ways of which I wasn’t aware. (All that alliteration. . . .)
Primarily I’ve realized a profound sense of peace that’s settled over me the past couple of days. I noticed it most today. Granted, I was already in the most untroubled state of mind I’ve enjoyed in over […]

Well, “fall” is probably more accurate. On the knees, head back, and rocking out into empty space, sunshine, and flapping cheeks. In retrospect, the sensation is less one of falling than having the atmosphere roaring past you. Not until you can see your shadow jogging toward you does the ground appear to […]

A friend of mine mentioned a conversation she had with her professor. He asked her if she’d voted yet and she said no, but what with him voting a straight Democratic ticket, their votes would just cancel each other out. She said this as if it were a bad thing. I pointed […]