one thing that happened in the intervening silence of this blog was that my grandmother (my father’s mother) died suddenly at the beginning of April. it was unexpected in that there was no long decline, no hospitalizations immediately before. she simply died in her sleep, which, as my father pointed out to me, was exactly […]
from the ferry, the water looks like dark, opaque corrugated glass. the night before was hazy, foggy and humid, and as i drove onto the Cape early this morning, it started to clear. from the window that i sit at now, on my way to the island of Nantucket, i can see no land or […]
after too many years of fighting 18 wheelers on the Cross Bronx Expressway, i now taking a series of small parkways into Manhattan. starting somewhere up in Connecticut, from the Merritt to the Cross County to the Saw Mill to the Henry Hudson. all these highways in miniature, made twee by the lack of trucks. […]
i’ve been blogging in one form or another since 1999. my motivations for doing it have changed over those 10 years, from catharsis to ego-tripping to therapy to writing exercise. i realized recently that all the writing i’ve done here, so much of it terrible and chronicling terrible things, is the best gift i have […]
Some stories you carry around in your heart. Others live in the throat, in the skull, in the fangs — all worthy places, too. (Natalia Antonova)
a few days ago, i had to opportunity to finally do some bronze casting. one of my colleagues is teaching a beginning sculpture class, and let me in on the […]
i am jealous.
okay, this sounds like the oldest tale in the book of sibling relationships. i am jealous of her. it’s stupid that it took me nearly 29 years on the planet to not only figure this out that this is probably most of the root of the problems in our relationship.
what prompted this? she […]
when i heard that the new Star Trek movie was coming out on May 7th, i knew it would be an inauspicious release date for me, firstly because i would be in the final throes of my semester and thus completely insane, and secondly because the people i wanted to see it with (my Dad […]
i rarely write about my dubious domestic exploits here because they are frequently embarrassing and pathetic, and not in a “oops, i bleached my underwear!” kind of way.
anyway, i am writing to tell you that i improvised a surprisingly successful soup today. grad school has left me with little time for normal cooking (as if […]
i don’t know how this escaped my notice, but i realized tonight that i have significant amounts of gray hair. i gather that this has been happening for a while, but given that my hair has not been its natural color since around age 17, who knows for sure. my current fauxhawk means that the […]
what follows is a complete transcript of the text messages my mother and i exchanged during the NFC championship game this afternoon (which the Eagles lost). she was at home in Lebanon, i was at a bar in New Bedford.
my mom’s texts are in bold.
2:07: ready for game @ 3??????
2:56: ready???????
2:59: Yooooou betchya!!!!
3:16: ridiculous.
3:17: calm […]