Ode To An IBM Selectric
I am no Luddite – I love my technology products, the sleeker the better. But even the tech porn that is Apple cannot match the wondrous sensory experience provided by […]
Land of Lincoln
I saw Lincoln last night. Here’s my review: everyone should see it. For lots of reasons, not the least of which is the eerie way Daniel Day Lewis disappears into […]
Gifts With Strings
When she was small, Christmas meant the smell of cinnamon-scented candles, a tree with lights that shone steadily and all white without even one twinkle, and wearing a scratchy dress […]
Follow Me
It’s a mild day, the sunlight lying easily on the olive green hills that I am preparing to run. For a person from the Midwest whose memories are of green […]
Ribbons
Keeer ki ki shurrrr She dreamed of food. She always did, these days. Pork chops and creamed corn. Hamburgers with concentric rings of onion, thick rounds of tomato. Long skinny […]
Daddy’s Pet
She smelled him the moment she walked in the door. It wasn’t as bad as yesterday, though. Maybe I should leave, go out tonight. The thought streaked through her mind, […]
The Creek
Daddy made me show him the place. You couldn’t tell nothing about what happened but for that stick. It had some of my blood on it but Daddy didn’t notice. […]
Bag Lunch
One day he found a girl in his lunch. She was wearing a blue dress, the skirt stuffed and tied into a round soft ball pierced with dozens of straight pins, as if she’d been shot by dozens of Indians small as herself.
To a Triathlete, Dying Young
Barbara Warren competed in the Ironman Triathlon World Championships in Hawaii 13 times, finishing in the top 5 of her age group eight times, and winning her age group in […]
The Fourth at the Lake
Over the past decade (my fourth), 4th of July has become less of a holiday for me, and more a symbol – it represents the midpoint of summer, a tangible […]
reliablyuncomfortable 