Yesterday a man got on the train and I smelled him before I saw him. His fly was down and I saw that because I was sitting and he was standing and I really didn’t want to look up to see his face, but I thought that might be better than his open fly. He […]
At the only light in town, I sit stopped in my car and watched. On the right side, firemen worked on a big, shiny red firetruck. On the left side, women spill out the back door of the yoga studio. The men wear black uniforms—all I can really see is black, and leather and metal. […]
My house is filled with knotty pine and lots of built-in cabinets and shelves. Along one short wall of the living room, I always wanted even more shelves, for books. After my husband Don died, I had a lot of reactions, as you can imagine, but as far as the house went, I made changes. […]
The doctor said there is no getting it up and out, that we have to wait until it went down and out. My Dad, swallowing gasonline when he tried to syphon some from the car to use in our lawn mower. This was during the gas rationing of the 70’s, when it wasn’t unusual to see […]
I am going to work on this more for next year and see if I can send it out somewhere. Relationships between parents and their 18-22 year olds won’t have changed… Your child is coming home for Thanksgiving, for 3 days or 5 days or a week. You haven’t seen him/her since parent’s weekend in […]