When I used to work at the mall, we were always assured that, no matter what, great coffee could be found just down the wing at Great Plains Coffee. This was a decade ago, and though I didn’t drink coffee at the time, I still appreciated it being there - [...]
Every year we take a dead tree and place it in our living room.
It doesn’t stop there, though. We drag five large Tupperware crates upstairs, despite the fact that we’ll only use the contents of two. We rearrange furniture. We lose extension cords. We make a list for the hardware [...]
It had been snowing for hours.
I listened with rapt attention to the radio in my mother’s car. I was on my way to my father’s house; after spending most of the afternoon with my step-grandparents, I had finished with the dining portion of [...]
“Beegelbed”
This is not a word. It has never entered our minds, never left our mouth, never been created. In the history of words, it is nothing.
That is, until now.
Because, you see, it’s not enough for Sierra to learn words at a frightening pace. No. Now, she’s making up her own.
Except, [...]
It may simply look like a wooden spoon. But you’d be wrong.
It’s handle was thick; sturdy and solid, it gave control to the flimsy, tedious process of stirring. It’s wide face, cupped enough to provide necessary currents, gave life to dried rice, moving, constantly moving, the power to sift and [...]
All it took was a glance at this map.
I can’t remember how old I was – somewhere between 5 and 8 – but I do remember that my grandparents lived in Villa Hills, Kentucky, a suburb of Cincinnati, where my grandfather was a recruiter [...]
What I’ve read:
The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to the Sports Guy - Bill Simmons
It might be a little hypocritical to slag on someone for being self-referential. As a blogger who writes primarily about his life and thoughts, most of [...]
*cough*
It isn’t so much the cough itself, though it’s persisted for 10 days, comes and goes as it pleases, creates excruciating bad breath and fills my throat with an occasional rattle.
It’s the noise.
As in, a sharp warning to all around me. “Watch out,” it says, “Sicko coming through. Take cover [...]
I love cheese. Love it.
LOVEIT.
Kerrie asked me recently to guess the three classes of consumables she appreciated the most. I kinda sorta guessed correctly: coffee, beer, bread. And, I wholeheartedly agree – my three are nearly the same, with the only difference being my choice of cheese over bread.
(Though both [...]
When we’re in high school, the differences between cliques and social classes are evident. Striking, even, in that, once they are set, there is nothing short of a miracle that could release you from one to another.
After all, barring relocation or other life-altering change, we’re in the same group as [...]
Talk about being hard to pin down. Welcome to my mind on Wikipedia.
First, I look up Neanderthals (Homo sapiens neanderthalensis), primarily to make the distinction between Neanderthals and prehistoric Homo sapiens sapiens. I’m instantly distracted by the fact that, despite there have been no definite specimens younger than [...]
It’s days like this, where dinner is made over lunchtime and the dishes wait until after the kids go to bed and the things we’d like to do are pushed off as we both spend all of our free time post-bedtime getting ready for the next day, that I wonder [...]
Whether it was out of laziness, or sympathy for the creators, or apathy in terms of my inbox’s cleanliness, I’ve been allowing my email account to fill with newsletters, promotions, reminders and e-blasts for the past five years. A typical day would bring 25 messages, 18 of which were from [...]
Ever since I started my current job, I see Audis everywhere.
My bosses both drive Audis. I had never noticed them before. Now, during my short commute to work, I swear I see at least 700 Audis. Silver. Black. Sometimes white. But always Audis. The model is unnecessary – after all, [...]
Hair is something sacred. It’s often the first thing you notice about a person. It’s a central piece of style; entire industries are built upon hair in a way that other body parts barely touch upon.
The love affair with hair could be scientific. After all, it protects our head, somewhat; [...]
It starts with a tickle, sometimes observed as a scratch, often discovered through chance. Then, the cough, occurring on its own, without the baggage of an entire suite of symptoms. But those symptoms are there: the cough reaches down a little too far, brings up phlegm when it should simply [...]
