When I was a child, I thought grapefruit would taste like purple. Perhaps I thought this for years, or only once, or not at all. Memory is tenuous like that, all shifting colors and morphing shapes. I can only truly know what I know now, and sometimes, not even that. Perception is unreliable. Yet, hereContinue reading “Re-membering: a foreword”
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The next, best thing
There will be a time when the thing grazes the tips of your fingers and you sense the displacement of the air between you and the thing. Do not mistake this displacement as your own. No. Your feet, shoulder’s width apart, are planted as they should be The thing was not yours. Not that one.Continue reading “The next, best thing”
Because April is the cruelest month
Teachers know. April is the cruellest month Houston doesn’t really have much of a spring. Can you even call it spring when there wasn’t really a winter? No. April is early summer. Temperatures in the upper 70s, low 80s. Longer days. Sun. Thunderstorms. The weather itself mocks both teacher and student. It feels like summer.Continue reading “Because April is the cruelest month”
Implosure
It takes about 6 1/2 hours to drive from Houston to Arkadelphia. That’s a lot of thinking time, and that’s what I do whenever I make that drive. Think and sing along to my 90’s R & B playlist made especially for the occasion. (Ooo yeah) Arkadelphia (no relation to Philadelphia) is a small town in southwestContinue reading “Implosure”
How to make the world suck less
It smells like pee in here. Pee and hopelessness. I sat clutching my call number, scanning the room for the source of the sour smell. I turned to my husband, nose wrinkled in disgust. “Do you smell that?” “What?” “It smells like pee.” “Oh, is that what that is? Maybe some kid couldn’t wait toContinue reading “How to make the world suck less”
Like Cat Hair
God, I hate cat hair. It lands on every fabric surface in my home and clings there, multiplying into layers, waiting for an unsuspecting victim to walk by, thereby providing a means of transportation to another surface. This morning, I snatched the king-size quilted comforter off the bed, determined to get rid of the ever-presentContinue reading “Like Cat Hair”
Positively Ridiculous 