adopting

What does anxiety go with? Animal print? Obviously it goes with your cat dying, your parent being diagnosed with a terrible illness, and getting a new boss. …but it also goes with a whole week off work! A great birthday party! A new baby! My dad had a multiples-of-five birthday, and two of my siblings […]

clean up

This is a tragedy. I didn’t want to buy a car. Under late capitalism, what single person clinging to the lower middle class would? When I moved back to the midwest, my dad had an extra car he had inherited, so he gave me that car to drive. Yes, I was in my forties, and […]

the incans had no words

The Incan had no words Nothing written, not as such of poetry and record they did not ponder much Incans had string. Incans had knots. Incans had something figured out. Incans didn’t send court summonses via bicycle. Or sew novels between slices of skin Incans didn’t miss anything. They didn’t miss tricks, picks, flicks– An […]

I rode a wave. What made Mardi Gras and me a good fit is we both have a strong sense of TOO MUCH IS NOT ENOUGH So we begin planning our party in September, build a miniature London of cardboard boxes and toilet paper rolls painted black. I build a 14 foot Big Ben that, it […]