“Truthfully, this is the fabric of all my fantasies: love shown not by a kiss or a wild look or a careful hand but by a willingness for research. I don’t dream of someone who understands me immediately, who seems to have known me my entire life, who says, I know me too. I want someone keen to learn my own strange organization, amazed at what’s ( Read more... )

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Fixings of post-partum life after a drug-free birth w/tears ( Read more... )

Addie talks a lot about marriage. She asks me why I'm not married, it's a fixation of hers. She says that she will get married, but she won't have any children. She might have one child. Does it hurt, she asks? Well, I've never had a child, but I think it does hurt, I say. I add, But it's worth it, you know? Yeah, she agrees ( Read more... )

Q runs everywhere he goes. From classroom to classroom. From the car to the store entrance. From his bedroom to the bathroom. It is more a fractured canter than it is a full-fledged run. Walking is something that doesn’t occur to him. Or maybe it does and he has ruled it out as making little sense in situations of destination.

-Emily, go get your ( Read more... )

A curious effect of H's autism is the moment in which he will pay absolute attention to you. Contentedly spacing out and stimming all throughout Mr. Truant's talk on ones, tens, and hundreds, he tuned back in immediately when Mr. Truant mentioned that their gym teacher Ms. C would not be in all week due to an injury. Apparently she fell off a razor ( Read more... )

No matter what I'm reading, or where, I keep hoping to find a perfect sentence, something brief, entire, and completely spinning within the stalk of itself, with no reference to any character, so it doesn't need a context, but rolls like a marble in a vacuum tube, a marble as beautiful as those clear ones with green and blue ribbons inside I used ( Read more... )

Last night I dreamt that I went up to Haruki Murakami at a dinner party and sheepishly told him that I was a big fan.

Then I asked him, "Are you going to eat those onion rings?"

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