Finished

Last Sunday, I followed the sidewalk around the mansion to get my paper. Walking back, I glanced at the front door, and a funny change of color caught my eye. A metal grate goes over the front doors. After the front doors with their pathetic latches were kicked in, the grate got pulled and bent […]

Dragons

Today is the feast of St. George. I was, and am, a dragon. My elementary school mascot was a dragon, and I was born in the year of the dragon. I learned I was a dragon, in the latter sense, by reading a red Chinese food menu with gold drawings of animals, eating in a restaurant […]

Fish is Fish

The heart wants what it wants, I guess. I wanted a fish, and I although I remember wanting one before I saw “Finding Nemo,” it took a decade before its lessons wore off enough that I could consider having a domesticated fish to be a humane practice. Just another victory for Pixar. My residual nervousness […]

Squeezed

“Like a snake is squeezing you, maybe?” I offered. My students are working on a project which requires them to create a symbol for a problem they have overcome. “Lots of people, when they get anxious, have tightness around here,” I gestured around my chest. “I definitely feel it there.” “Yeah, like I’m being squeezed,” […]