Bobina doesn't get paper cuts, or eat too many raisins (or any raisins at all), and she does not count the years or minutes or steps. She looks cute always, and never deletes later. And when the stuk-stuk-stuk of men putting in a new roof for the neighbors
We're driving home on Route 3 in Jersey. "Did you see the car without lights?" "No, where." "Exactly." You knew that car was there, you tell me, because of how the cars around it were moving. Albedo, you tell me, is the
Sometimes I feel like a pioneer woman,
Mistakes were made, their name was midtown.
The wind shakes the snow from the trees, the trees are a snow sifter.
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In Boom, Belgium, we lived for a short time with a woman named Gusta. She lived on a narrow street, paved with bricks, or maybe it was just that the narrow brick houses were so close together that I've remembered everything as brick. The children in that town
Throw on a hoodie and step into your boots. Go out back, break the ice in the bucket so the juncos, cardinals and squirrels can drink. Back inside, measure out the coffee beans, grind them. When the water reaches two-hundred-and-five-degrees, slowly pour it in concentric circles over the coffee. (Play
I found a twenty on the floor and picked it up. If it had been a hundred I would have tried to find its owner. I didn't think about how I'd do that, because it wasn't a hundred, it was a twenty. A twenty
A bike industry veteran once told me that historically, mom-and-pop shops had the best credit, because the "mom" always had stamps on her person. She could mail checks to vendors in a timely fashion. I do carry stamps on my person, or nearly s0 – they are in the
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