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“Those we love never truly leave us”
Doug sat on the granite bench around friends and family in front of the mausoleum where the remains of his wife, Susanna, had just been interred. Earl, 54, Doug’s older brother by about seven years, spoke the longest—too long for Doug’s taste—but Doug always thought of his big brother as a blowhard. When Earl finished… Read more
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Hollow
He arrived in Santa Barbara, checked into the hotel room, and walked out onto the beach towards the shoreline, and walked to the water’s edge to feel the Pacific Ocean’s water rush towards, around, and away from his feet and ankles as if they were no more significant than stones in a stream. “Who did… Read more
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Theo and Marci: Trauma and a Second Chance
Theodore Meets Marci Theodore Williams stood in line at the public library when he realized the librarian who would most likely help him was the wrong librarian. Theodore asked the person behind him if he wanted to take his place in line. As it turned out, he still ended up with the wrong librarian. The… Read more
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Fighting over the letter “W.” What’s next?
While I no longer follow Brodie Brazil since he no longer calls Athletics games since they left Oakland, and I no longer follow the A’s since they exited the Bay Area, I found this piece in my YouTube queue the other day that Brazil does a great job of exposing how petty professional sports can… Read more
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Hearts & Minds: Then and Now–a Repost
This 2017 post was from one of my favorite bloggers, Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist. It is now unavailable. I rediscovered it through WordPress’ Throwback Edition. Reviewing it depressed me, so I thought I would share the love. When I think about Peter Davis’ film, it is not too hard to replace North Vietnam with… Read more
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Walking Into Closed Cafés: A Six-Sentence Story
Jonathan wished he had an internal clock that would tell him to stop before he did it, but he didn’t come with that feature in utero; when he was older, he never saw an aftermarket feature he could buy and have a surgeon implant one. How often he walked into a coffee shop or restaurant,… Read more
