Packing to go home after a month on Nantucket, rolling sweaters I don’t need but bought into my suitcase, shoving shoes and books into a box to ship, I’m wishing I had less pants and …
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things that I Have
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the house my words bought
I sit in the shade outside of the house my words bought, trying to write more words. Even though my words were worthy enough to afford a house with a shaded spot out back and …
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their words
Bobbie calls herself a baby, she calls everyone a baby, she wants to say goodnight to dad. She asks for shoes and cheese, she says go NOW and SHOES NOW, GO. Every day, a new …
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that guy
We are currently all kind of covered in puke because Joe ate too many fries yesterday? BEEN THERE, JOE! So let’s focus on a cute thing: Joe calls everyone whose name he does not know …
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I wanna get IN that
IT’S HAPPENING, IT’S FINALLY HAPPENING! We have entered what I suspected might be one of my favorite kid phases and I was so, so right. Joe has started absurd things that make zero sense but …
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humans vs. ideas
At the risk of sounding VERY VERY OBVIOUS I think the hardest part of character-driven writing is writing about human beings instead of ideas. So often I’ll be crafting something and realize, I’m thinking about …
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each other
We can wait, if you like, to ascend to some higher plane of being, at which point we’ll start directing all our mental and material resources towards existential questions and thinking nothing of our own …
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a chicken is thawing
Many moons ago, middle school? I was a poet, or at least, I wrote many many poems. Then in college, I was NOT accepted to intermediate poetry writing (was that really the name of the …
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NO WORRIES EXCLAMATION POINT
I can’t stop thinking about this meme, Gif? I saw recently? Post? Fig? Mom? Image? This. There is nothing more frantic than No Worries, nothing more desperate than All Good. There is always a Secret …
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He Speaks
In my previous pre-Joe life I remember overhearing conversations between parents and their toddlers, in which the kid goes BAHHHHHHHHH! and the parent goes YES, YOU’RE RIGHT, IT’S A COMPUTER! GOOD JOB! And I would …