I’ve probably mentioned before that as a little kid I used to make tapes of a pretend radio station called “K23: Greek music, relaxing hits, and information” (the station ID I delivered in an abrasively singsong tone). I conducted make-believe interviews, gave talk-radio-style commentary, improvised commercials where I hollered about products being on sale for... Continue Reading →
-OK, that title is misleading. You were on the same team as me for a good while. But you were a private person, and I was a private person, and our compounded private natures meant that despite being close to you in proximity, I barely knew you at all. -Despite that, whenever you said hi... Continue Reading →
-I know a lot of people who knew you, and the puzzle pieces are adding to up to a vivid picture of an individual I feel compelled to write to right now. -When I type your name in social media, it seems you loved fiercely and checked in on a lot of people all the... Continue Reading →
Coming off a three-day weekend during which I (in addition to other household chores)..... -Did a deeper than usual cleaning (DP helped) and bought new pillows to combat recent allergy flares-Did a ton of stretching and other exercising to combat my chronic, undiagnosed-despite-x-ray-and-rheuma-visit back problems, which also alternate between being tailbone, trap, pec, elbow, and... Continue Reading →
You broke my heart, girl,All those years later,The way you malignedHow we once basked togetherIn our primal state,Hair like streamers,Commune of the crimson lipstick.You talked like a savior Sprung you from a gangOr scrubbed you clean of a cult; You talked like spirits had been to blame,Like evil had been in us - when really,That... Continue Reading →
I don't know you, so this means nothing, but I'll be damned if I don't recognize a pattern, familiar, a Mandelbrot. As I write this, I'm listening to music improvised, stumbling, in a church. As I write this, I'm thinking how angry I got watching him cut up bone-in chicken last night with cooking scissors... Continue Reading →
If I'd read the voice of Holden Caulfield as a teenager, I'm sure I would have fallen in love like all those other boys and girls did before me. Mercifully, though, Catcher was one of those staples I somehow missed, probably for focusing on whatever other staples a teacher was force-feeding me at the time.... Continue Reading →
A couple reflections on the delicate thing that is self-perception. Since I began wearing wigs for universal autoimmune hair loss in 2017, I have consistently maintained a strict visual delineation between my work self and my, shall we say, unshackled self. Yes, there are practical reasons that one’s work wig of choice might be plainer,... Continue Reading →
2. PHYSICS a property of matter by which it continues in its existing state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, unless that state is changed by an external force It is not customary for me to use this website for traditional, plainspoken journaling about the nuts and bolts of everyday life. Typically... Continue Reading →
Someone I know professionally didn't show up to work this morning and was reported missing. By the end of the workday she was located safe. Apparently there was a text message this morning that was cause for alarm. So while (thankfully) there is no longer immediate danger, there are still unknowns. Something is still amiss.... Continue Reading →
The Sold Kingdom 