Before sitting down to Thanksgiving dinner each year, my mom makes us all write down what we are thankful for. Two years ago I wrote, “Good Health”. I remember this because I was lightly chided for picking such a lame and obvious thing – like saying I’m thankful for oxygen or photosynthesis. And though I …
Monthly Archives: November 2011
Drawing
I went for a run last night to the high school and on behind it and to the nature trail simply known as the Prairie Wolf Slough. It’s a little slice of nothing that starts in a nondescript back corner of a soccer practice field and winds its way along a stream, behind a few …
The longer I lay here
I’m currently typing this from the crude home office I just set up in the living room at my parents’ house in Deerfield. It has a window and everything! Hello future lost hours of productivity staring at the front lawn instead of the the pictures of Italy on the wall in my cube back in …
A race in which I thaw out
I’m half awake, standing on the Metro platform dressed in a black garbage bag. It’s roughly 32 degrees outside and I’m trying to store all the radiant heat I can. A dozen of us pack into the train the moment the doors open, eliminating all personal space but providing additional heat. We all ride one …