A Grip

The floor is always there. Usually we use it for walking, but I’ve found myself on it from time to time. I have, once, come home and sat on the floor, and then crawled to bed. I have, once, fallen asleep on my bathroom floor. I was sick, there, and sometimes I had made myself […]

The Seventh

I was prepared for the January 6th committee hearing this time. I spent the first one secured by a friend on either side of me. I spent others half awake, half asleep. For the seventh, I sat in my art room and started clipping wire and jewelry I never wore, stringing tiny necklaces for wine […]

Bellyaching

I’m a champion complainer now. A gold medal bitcher. It surprises me, too. My work had arranged for me to travel to California’s Napa Valley to attend a conference. When I first heard about it, I was thrilled. But then complaints surfaced. I wanted to take a friend, but couldn’t figure out how to make […]

A Basket of Clams

“The primary organs of the immune system [is] the thymus, a soft, pinkish-gray triangular gland above our heart. (It resembles a thyme leaf, hence its name.). It is one of the few organs that grows smaller after puberty, the point at which many of our immune cells have been made…. “When our adaptive immune cells […]