Too cold for short sleeves last night. Perfect trick-or-treating weather, but I doubt anyone would’ve been generous; it’s more than two months early.
The brisk air makes for clean, crisp breathing, which is what I would be doing if I weren’t rearranging the dust in my bedroom closet. Hopefully I’ll get some of the junk cleaned [...]

When my dad bought his first brand-new car he did it without warning. One day in 1992 he just came home with a shining blue minivan that smelled like a factory in Mexico.
This was the largest car my sister and I had ever seen (I was 10, she was 14). Like scientists observing an [...]

Now that my night class (prison from life) is over, my weeknights are open. Totally, horribly, frighteningly open. I get home from work and marvel at the great expanse of unoccupied time that lies before me. After a long day spent blinking at a cathode ray tube, it’s pretty overwhelming to think about all the [...]

No one ever said you have to be a gay, compulsive, ex-drug-addict to be a successful writer, but apparently it doesn’t hurt. And if you’ve got family members whose faults and oddities you don’t mind exposing to the world, that’s even better.
David Sedaris compares his sister’s feet to animal hooves. He portrays his brother [...]

“Moon…river…wider than a mile…”
She was singing to me in slow, warm breaths. I could feel her lips brushing my ear, but I wanted her closer, so I pulled at her hips.
“I’m crossing you in style…someday…”
It was night, and we were dancing. The moon shone a thin, half-full light on the smooth cobblestone rocks of [...]

“I’ve never heard anyone use that term before in all the time I’ve worked here.”
Uh oh. I’d identified the man in the orange apron – the one I’d spied halfway down the hardware aisle – as my last, best hope of fixing my leaking bath-tub faucet and stop the dripping in the kitchen below. But [...]

I’m on vacation this week, so in lieu of dead space, I’m linking to some of my favorite posts from the last five months. See you next week.
This year’s mother’s day was a day when Mother Nature came to my door and said “Who’s your daddy?”
And I said, “You are?”
And she said, “Dats right, foo.”
And [...]

I’m on vacation this week, so in lieu of dead space, I’m linking to some of my favorite posts from the last five months. See you next week.
What’s the only thing better than Humpty Dumpty? Communist Humpty Dumpty.

I’m on vacation this week, so in lieu of dead space, I’m linking to some of my favorite posts from the last five months. See you next week.
Really, what’s the point of traveling to a foreign country if you don’t feel like you’re risking your life within minutes of getting there?

I’m on vacation this week, so in lieu of dead space, I’m linking to some of my favorite posts from the last five months. See you next week.
Still stuck in the snowy grip of winter, Michel Gondry’s “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” provided an excuse to feel happy again. For 2 hours.