Walk

What we did at recess was walk. Walk and talk. Our school had plenty of space around it. We walked and talked, and I knew I had an absurdly mature interest in both. Today I will do the same. I signed up to walk a 10k last year, just to say I had. I hate […]

Dos and Don’ts

If you are thinking of being a human being right now, maybe don’t. You could be Willy Wonka, maybe, or a panda. Being a cat is always safe, in the way that being a cat is never safe. I felt together enough to do a meditation this morning, and I went through three before settling […]

We Would Never Have Thought

Murle may have put my sister in the psych unit. Murle is discussed at my aunt’s funeral, we might as well have put up a scarecrow of her in a pew. I’m in the bathtub. I feel like Marat about the bathtub. French. Although I’m eager to abandon my phone, this time, why? It is […]

Animals

My life is animals now. An orca dragging a seal to its waiting baby. Dolphins and sharks. Gills and lungs. I’m teaching ESL, level 1, and the common denominator, the thing that we can all lower down to connect on, is animals. Do animals matter? Do my students need to know what an elephant is? […]