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Human Beings in the Wild.
Jason called this afternoon and was all, So, how’s that entry coming? and I admitted, IT’S NOT. I’ve been trying to write this for six days, and honestly, I think the problem is that when something...
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The Body Electric.
Hey. So. A few days ago, I posted a small update on Twitter and Facebook, giving the short version of a three hour visit at Duke: if Addie’s new medication doesn’t work, they want to consider...
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Best of times worst of times
You’ll have to forgive me: I’m a little bit rusty. It’s been weeks and weeks– maybe even months– since I really sat down to write an entry. I used to do this all the time. I mean, daily. Now, the idea...
View ArticleThe Carousel
About a week ago, Millie found a silver spoon at the pool. We have no idea where it came from. Michelle and I were going through the tedious process of packing up for the day. We always pool like it’s...
View ArticleOh The Places You’ll Go
Expedia customer service, this is Jarold speaking. How may I be of assistance today? I took a breath. “Hi! Hey. I– um, I guess I want to cancel? My trip? I’m supposed to go to Chicago in a week, but I...
View ArticleThe Promised Land
My neighbor passed away recently. Their house almost touches ours: new construction makes small plots, leaves tiny alleyways between homes. Just that strip of grass that divided our lives. Sometimes we...
View ArticleCrickets and Rust Beetles
God, it looks like a frat house in here. Or the aftermath of a legendary LAN party. I’m running on so little sleep– two days at between three and four hours. Went to bed this morning at three, woke up...
View ArticleFamily Portrait.
They told us over dinner a week ago. It wasn’t dinner, really; they got into town too late for it to be dinner but it was too much food to just be a bite to eat. We went to an Irish pub around the...
View Articlethe deepest secret nobody knows
I came back yesterday from visiting my parents. I don’t know if that’s how to begin. I don’t know how to start this. I’ve been up for a few hours, rewriting and editing this in my head, this entry;...
View ArticleBack to Basics
I have started aggressively saving. That’s what I call it when people ask. We got a new car, and the first thing everyone wanted to know was why, why a big purchase out of the blue, and I go to that...
View ArticleThe Happiest Place on Earth
I’m washing the sheets because it’s Friday, and Friday is the day you wash the sheets. This is the same every week: Saturday, you mow the lawn and garden, Sunday is church and football, Monday is...
View ArticleOne season following another.
Elias asked a girl named A to the Homecoming dance but she hasn’t said yes yet. Every day, he and Philip update me on the dance situation during the drive home from school: both boys want to go,...
View ArticleThe Hours
It’s 3:23 and I can’t sleep. I tried. I laid awake next to Jason for twenty minutes in the dark, listening to him breathe. He never snores. He just breathes: in and out, steady, patient, the heat and...
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