Sometimes I wonder if, as we get older, our ironic delivery dulls, falls short ( Read more... )

I was on my smoke break. I sat, swinging my legs, on the dock beside David, a gay deaf co-worker of mine. I, regretfully, do not know sign language -- and we don't have our usual pad to communicate with -- so we nod, smile, then sit silently staring ahead ( Read more... )

I must be feeling better ( Read more... )

Was just reminded of this because of his phone call last night ( Read more... )

I have to say it is interesting to find yourself living in a city where seeing the occasional Elvis impersonator is not at all an odd thing ( Read more... )

Reading badfaggot's entries about librarianship called something to mind ( Read more... )

Went to hear Stephen Dunn (poet) read Wednesday night at Rhodes College: Well-intentioned, funny man; not my cup of tea. Beth and I had met Treasure (a poet friend of Beth's) there, and since she's a teacher/student/mother, she wanted to indulge her escape and have something to eat after. So we did ( Read more... )

Yesterday evening, Joe and I went downtown just to walk around and turned down Beale Street, people-watching, as we sometimes do. On one side of the street we see that there is a knot of youngish people: a woman in a white formal gown, a guy in a gray suit with cane and Mad Hatter-like hat, several others in similar over-the-top formal wear. They ( Read more... )

Working at the reference desk today, a regular comes up to ask for assistance with "recording" her document. She has HUGE, sixties-style, thick glasses, wears untold layers of polyester, and has gray hair that she wears in a ponytail that rests on one shoulder. She's about 60 ( Read more... )

One of my favorite folks at work, an African-American woman around 70 years old, who volunteers at the library. She told a story once about being in love with a "Chinese man, Mr. Wong who broke my heart". Supposedly she lied to him about some trivial matter and he broke it off with her. She said she used to love his soup and wondered if he was ( Read more... )