etc., recall the word
resoldered here
in a pane of sand.
— R. Kenney
My three-year-old son today exclaimed “Look Mommy it’s snowing and raining at the same time.”
If I were there I would have informed him that this meteorological phenomenon is known as “sneet” or, more simply, late winter in Chicago.
Clowns at the circus
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I turned 50 last month. It’s a funny age. Old for sure, but not ancient; closer to the end than the beginning, statistically. Maybe because of that memento mori I seemed naturally to be thinking less about the present and more about the future — a future far enough out that does not include me. […]
Friends! I turn 50 years old on August 4. I’ll pause for old person jokes, but please speak up. 50 is an arbitrary milestone, sure, but I got myself a pretty great gift and I’d like to tell you about it. August 4 will mark 1,000 days since I gave up alcohol. It’s been the […]
Hello friends! Last year when the lockdown started, I watched a lot of movies. Most of these were what’s considered horror or closely adjacent to it. I wrote about almost everything I watched (and why I think it was as much an immune response to the pandemic as antibodies). That long post, though, was the […]
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