Tag Archives: friends

Life Is Not A Beach

I spent the day at the Library of Con­gress. The hot­test day we’ve had all year, and early in the mor­ning, because I’d skip­ped my mor­ning run, I deci­ded to walk to the library from New Hampshire and M. I had snag­ged my aunts assistant’s par­king garage space for the day, a coup.

Life Is Like A Bowl of Cherries

I’m laying around fee­ling ill, the result of dow­ning a bowl of che­rries while watching Paul McCart­ney, here to claim what’s left of the Beat­les Cata­log, on David Let­ter­man.
I’m thin­king, though not deeply, about death. The grand­father of a good friend died today. Fune­rals are sad, death not neces­sa­rily so. Some­ti­mes death is a

Another Saturday Night

I’m par­ti­ci­pa­ting, in a non par­ti­ci­pa­tory fashion, in Infi­nite Sum­mer. I star­ted yes­ter­day. My hou­se­mate, who often scrolls my sites online, much like my old college room­ma­tes used to scroll blogs for me, is blo­gless and lives vica­riously through me, pro­vo­ked me to do it. It’s not like work, school, no real vaca­tion, at least

Letters

I cou­ple of months ago I was clea­ning my office clo­set and found a box of saved let­ters. I went through them, rea­ding quite a few in full. It was a fun dis­trac­ting thing to do. Let­ters are a rare thing these days for most of us, even my grand­mother emails and text mes­sa­ges