I was sitting at a stoplight yesterday, watching a plastic grocery sack blow across the road and slam into cars. It was the kind of thing someone in a creative writing program in college would write a poem about, I thought, which annoyed me, because some things seem unnecessarily in need of memorializing in purple [...]
April 25, 2009 Leave a Comment
April 23, 2009 Leave a Comment
Being tired.
I’m tired. I spent most of the past five months exhausted, but it was a tired based in a kind of desperation and disappointment and frustration with my life. Right now I’m tired because I’m putting in long and late hours, baking cupcakes and balancing art and design projects and squeezing in a run here [...]
April 21, 2009 Leave a Comment
In Beta.
We had a beta fish that lived for many years, until one evening I found it floating on the top of the water, very aged and very dead. It was winter, so I put it in a Ziploc bag and then in a small box, drawing a gravestone on it with the words “R.I.P. Mr. [...]
