Proud

I went to a reunion of the school where I used to teach. I hugged people, and then we asked how we were. I asked what they were up to, and I worried that unless the answer was, “I have conquered the world with my college degree!” or had a baby to show me, they […]

Know/Don’t Know

Things I do not know: What do to about Donald Trump. What not to do about Donald Trump. How to get people to stop shooting guns. How I feel about going to graduate school. If I’d rather fail at things, or succeed. If I’d rather never fall in love again, or not. If I will […]

I Am Your Air Conditioner

I… am… your air conditioner. I… am doing what I can. This is my week. This is my moment. My lungs are as full as they are, and then they are as empty as they’ll ever be. I’m trying; I’m trying. This house, its rooms, all empty, and yet you ask me, all day, to […]

The Past

“Whisky, by the way, circulates more freely in Westport than is altogether safe in a place where every man carries a loaded pistol in his pocket.” -Francis Parkman, Jr., 1846 Westport is where I have done a great deal of my drinking. At the end of our education program, a classmate and I had whiskey […]