Archive for October, 2005

So, months and months ago, the big plan was to be napping drunk in a hammock in Guatemala when I turned thirty. What with shuffling for work schedules and natural disasters (Please ease up for a while, God. Amen.), we decided to head for Belize instead. We�re leaving tonight.
While I�m gone, you�ll find posts about […]

Me: The bedroom is cleeeeean! (I spin with my arms outstretched, then extend one leg behind me, lifting both arms to the ceiling.) Super clean!
Bryan blinks at me from the bed.
(I pause with my leg in midair, then repeat the gesture, more dramatically, with the opposite leg.)
Bryan remains unmoved.
Me: (Hopping onto the bed.) Bryan! […]

My sister, my niece and I are looking at photos of our newborn cousins. Bryan and my nephew, Trevor, are wrestling a few feet away. Trevor is shouting �C�MON! I CAN TAKE YOU! C�MON!� The girls begin to coo over the baby photos, �Oooooooh! What a sweetie,� and Trevor wanders over to look. His eyes […]

-What goes good with the cider?
-Scotch. Or the Maker�s is good too.
-No brown booze. That was the first thing I got sick on, and now I can�t touch it.
-That�s probably for the best.
-I don�t know. I wish I could drink it, it�s kind of a cool-chick thing.
-Eh. I think it […]

I turned thirty today. To celebrate this, my best birthday ever, I have a story for you.
When I was 17, I got a summer job and saved up a modest amount of money for a car. I was searching, fruitlessly, for a VW bus that didn’t smell like pot or konk out on the […]

It�s pouring and windy outside. A young man sits alone at a caf� table beneath a meager corner of the roof. On the table, he�s arranged his cigarettes, his coffee, and his diary. He gazes meaningfully into the distance, waiting to be observed.

Why do all the mortuaries in California look like Southern plantations?

Shaking sea salt on the popcorn, I open my mouth to take a breath. The air above the bowl is salty.

Scenario: Bryan�s extended family has rented a houseboat for a day trip, and the captain puts on a party mix. The kids are sitting on the upper deck drinking microbrews when the speakers start blasting �Milk Shake� by Kelis.
-Oh, man. Did you see her on Saturday Night Live?
-Awful.
-They turned the music all the […]

Two Years Ago
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