A friend from high school came up to the hallway, next to my locker, and handed me about ten of these deficiency reports. “Here,” she said, “take these.” These were, of course, the reports the school sent out to the parents when grades were bad. Deficiency report day was always dreaded. Well, except for nerds [...]

I save things that don’t always need saving. I might find a use for this, I think, and my collection of odd junk grows by leaps and bounds. Soon there won’t be enough Rubbermaid containers in the world to contain my collection. Some artists call it “ephemera” whereas I’ve come to realize it’s really just [...]