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The Empire of Douche
I picked the kids up from school today and ran into another parent I hadn't seen since last summer at one of my stepkids' birthday parties, hosted by their mother and stepfather. Even though I knew his kids, I didn't know him, so I said hello ( Read more... ) -
Famous last words...
I had a dream last week that a group of teenagers converged on my car in an intersection. I reached under my seat and pulled out my "tire tapper," a steel tube with a rubber grip handle. I realized too late, after I had antagonized them with the threat of a beating with my "tire tapper," that I was outnumbered, and that they also carried gypsy ( Read more... ) -
As I Write This...
As I write this entry I am watching a weird DVD of a converted reel-to-reel movie from I-don't-know-when-exactly. My mom and her girl cousins are waddling around in dresses with big wings on the shoulders, and the little boys are wearing blue pants and striped shirts. In one shot, a little girl carries a flat birthday cake with burning candles; ( Read more... ) -
Growing up Rural
My veterinarian, a guy I've had a crush on since 2005, and I had a conversation today about my dog's sweet disposition (very different, he noted, from my last dog's), about moving, and about the virtues of growing up "rural." He did the thing that all rural people do when he tried to explain to me where he lived: he briefly noted a town, a town I ( Read more... ) -
Please, take my place in Heaven.
If yesterday really was the second coming of Christ, then right now I would be smarting under pitchfork stabs, but I'm not. But if Christ had given me a choice, to take those who had suffered enough already in place of my unrepentant ass, to allow the men and women of my choosing to sail into the heavens while I suffered here on earth in their ( Read more... ) -
I grew up on a road with no name.
I grew up on a road with no name, a rural delivery route. My address was a route number and a box number. I was proud of that. My road with no name became a conversation piece, a point of departure in class discussions about identity and place in my classroom in my urban school ( Read more... )