Old notebook paper: Your pen followed the blue lines tracing out your day. The pages are creased. Pressed by your own hand, sealed, sent hand by hand, to me. And you say please. Please. Write. Send me something you touched. E-mail's so sterile.
Posts from ‘March, 2010’
A Letter from my Past Self
Image credit: Photo by Deltasly on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons Memory is notoriously unreliable: we leave out some details and enhance others; we rewrite old understandings based on what we currently know; we simply forget. I've written about most of the incidents in this blog from memory, even those few events I do have [...]
Are Bloggers Like Me Crazy?
Image credit: Photo by Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons "I hate that you don't have a blog," said a woman about to undergo heart surgery, as she gazed sincerely up at her boyfriend, "I hate that I don't know what you're thinking." Mark and I burst into raucous laughter and had [...]
I Don’t Love You
Image credit: Photo by jessica.garro on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons Most parents hear it at one time or another. Some variation on the universal theme of parent awfulness: "I hate you. I wish you were dead. I don't like you. I'm not going to be your child anymore. I want a new Mommy/Daddy. You're the [...]
Haiku for Janie and a Friend Eating Cake
"What's your favorite part: cake, frosting or strawberries?" "I pick... All of them!"
I Told You So
Image credit: Photo by Pink Sherbet Photography on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons "I bet anything she's pregnant," said Mark as we left a get together with friends in the years long before recovery. Having been through a pregnancy recently ourselves at that point, we knew what to look for: the change in eating habits, [...]
Golden Years
Image credit: Photo by Travis Jon Allison on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons "I don't like Agnes much," said my mother, "She's definitely no Aunt Gerty. But it's because Gerty was so wonderful that I think Uncle Fred is marrying Agnes." "What do you mean?" I asked. Uncle Fred and Aunt Gerty had been married [...]
Tiger Woods: Destination Unknown
Image credit: Photo by Misserion on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons I finally got around to watching the Tiger Woods apology speech, and I have to admit, I was impressed. As a New York Times article pointed out, even without explicitly saying the words "sex addiction" or "12 Step" the speech clearly implied both. In [...]
Set Apart
Image credit: Photo by timabbott on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons A recent NY Times opinion piece on toxins and autism has been making the rounds lately, and well, frankly, the piece bugs the crap out of me, and I can't quite figure out why. After all, it seems like, not just an excellent idea, [...]
