Spring is Winter

There was not a lot of urine. But it was following gravity down the vet’s examining table. How had I gotten here? Was it my urine? I remember being at yearbook camp and talking about first sentences that grab readers. Anyway. Tybalt is fluffy and white and has the nature of the Buddha. He clearly […]

Beef Everywhere

I didn’t go to Ash Wednesday. I felt like I thought a lot about how death happens, and how to deal with that fact, and I didn’t need anyone impressing it upon me any further. I went to Maundy Thursday. Where you sit in church is highly symbolic. Some people have to sit in the […]

Missouri & Tennessee

Some things work. Ibuprofen. Sad songs. Our last night in Memphis, as my body wearily attempted to digest fried eggs, grits, biscuits, a milkshake, and french fries, the one-side-of-head headache I got undulated with my pulse. In twenty minutes, it was gone, sudden as a bird flies off. My sister played the saddest song as […]

Stroll

I got up to pee, and I thought, I’m off the couch. I can make myself go out now. And I did! It was incredible. The desire to remain at home lingers, post-covid. Post all the recent traumas. But I was up! Up! And down the stairs, and out. One house down, the cement bird […]