On the unbearable lightness

It’s steamy-hot here in New England, the kind of hot I thought I escaped when I left Missouri. The showers they promised us have evaporated, along with multiple other promises of showers, and we’re looking at temperature in the 90s, and humidity at 120 percent — or so it feels. As I type this, I …

On being grateful…

I just bought a new-to-me car. Well, I thought I bought a car, but as it turns out, I am that one-in-a-million customer who chooses to buy a car that is not accompanied by a title. In order to secure said title, the dealership has gone back and forth with the bank in a process …

We are still married

This will be today’s only post, as we are beginning a long weekend to celebrate our 22nd anniversary, an occasion for which, I believe, the gift is irony, though this says copper. We got married in the backyard of a house we’d just bought together in 1993, on a beautiful September day. The clouds parted, the family gathered, and …