both sides now

I spend part of most work days circling the school. One of our primary treatments at the school where I teach is walking. Ideally, walking outside. Down the front steps, around the corner of the building, where the church’s sanctuary is, and under its overhang, where a fence protects extra junk that we tell the […]

Dear friend

In 1999, you gave me a list of movies to watch. I still have not seen “Seven Samurai.” I think there are a bunch of others I haven’t seen. But I bought a copy of Akira Kurosawa’s autobiography at a beautiful bookstore in Oklahoma City. What was I doing in Oklahoma City? I always traveled. […]

The Heat

My brother was explaining about the dryer: “Don’t use high heat. Don’t do that to your clothes.” I was in his basement, and I was realizing that someday he would likely say something similiar to me that I wouldn’t understand at all: “You have to blorp when you bleep blop, Liz. Otherwise the bloo won’t […]

out and back

My long road trip: let’s start with the very transcendent. A very good place to start. In a small wooden hall on a pier over the Atlantic, dozens and dozens of my extended family danced so hard there are concerns about structural damage. Boy cousins had dance battles. An MVP cousin directed all the gentlemen […]