Jinked

Driving home from Northwest Indiana tonight, I got to admiring the sparkle-sparkle of skyscraper windows glittering like a treasure box of gems while driving up Lake Shore Drive. Whenever I see Chicago at night, especially the lit-up windows of skyscrapers, I think of being in high school, driving home from Great America at 1 in the morning with my brother and our friend Ken, completely [...]

I have a panda with me tonight. Her bed is all set up in the living room, and she’s showering in the tub I just cleaned. That pink stuff on the ledges of the tub were quite a surprise. Bacteria can colonize in a myriad of places. Did you know that bread that bled back in the day was not blood at all, but rather [...]

…there lived a little girl who believed in the magic and magnetism of true love. That sounds unreasonably sappy, but I’m giving myself to dating once again. I’m still trying the online thing, and I’m still going to events and talking to people. It’s all a work in progress, but the older I get the stronger this yearning for companionship becomes. It’s not a matter [...]

Things have their was of snapping like a rubber band. I push and push and push away, but thin elastic can only stretch so far before it breaks in half or comes careening backward, a flash of lightning. Exciting. Not always inviting. I’m disoriented. There are pieces of my life that are lined up on the sill like good little ducks, but there are a [...]