Brookside History

I was so lonely so much of the time in New York, but I did enjoy doing things alone becuase I could give them my full attention. I visited museums, took walks, and explored without the component of discussing it. So when none of my friends took me up on another historical walking tour, I […]

The Last

Yes, I played “School’s Out” by Alice Cooper. No one needed that extra noise in the hall. Yesterday, a senior who had spent many days sleeping through class, came in to do some more work in hopes of graduating in July. I put on “Wayne’s World” and I told him it was the movie I […]

Skies

I have two opinions on UFOs: they are real, and they’re not. They are real in that my grandpa, the grandpa I barely knew, was a professional pilot, and he said every pilot had seen things. Every pilot had seen things, he said, and pilots know what weather balloons and satellites and reflections look like. […]

Up and Away

Four people whipped around the moon. The module was slightly different. It felt bad to feel good about a weak imitation of something humans had figured out how to do, and done, two generations ago. Still, I set my phone to the NASA youtube channel and let the feed feed me. The minutes when they […]