“Hey, You”
Unlike computer interfaces, however, life has yet to present me with a box I can check that says “Do not ask me again.”
Costco Wedding Rings
After a year or so, he wouldn’t remember the first trip, and the third trip with the same snack samples would be just as much of a treat.
French Onion Soup
If I had to choose between a mediocre french onion soup and a meal of three corn dogs with spicy mayo, I would choose the former every time
How do You Get a Cow Across a Firth?
In one corner, it imagines a boat.
Lone Woolf
“I’ve tried this book before,” said I, “with the success of a sore-legged predator. It stings and slogs in a circus of circumlocutions.”
The Juiceman Legacy
I awaited the next instruction; it never came.
God Bless My Noisy Neighbors
I can hear their little terrier skitter across the floor or jump off the couch with an adorable thud.
Figure 1: Chronic Overcommitment Cycle
But then your inbox stays dead. Your calendar remains open.
Phone Calls with Nathan
Like he says,”What’s the worst thing that could happen?”
An Ode to My Check Engine Light
And for a moment I thought, “Ah, maybe the car has healed itself,” before remembering that only living things can heal themselves and that my car, although I sometimes talk to it as if it were a person, is not a living thing.
