The Tuesday I Didn't Talk Myself Out Of It
November twenty-second. I want to tell you about a Tuesday three weeks ago that I almost didn't have. I'd been walking past the community center board since September and I'd seen…
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The Afternoon That Was Already There
November eleventh. Eleven days since Halloween and I am still thinking about the light on that block, the way it arrived without being arranged for. The thing about the day-trip s…
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Halloween, and the Print Sale Already Passed
October thirty-first. I know it's Halloween because the building next door has a plastic skeleton zip-tied to their fire escape, which has been up since mid-month and is starting…
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The Sentence Is Still Sitting There
October twentieth. The leaves have been doing their thing for three weeks now and I keep meaning to say something about that and instead I am thinking about a sentence Simone said…
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The Ninety-Day Summary
October ninth. I did not intend to open the spending tab. I was looking for the loyalty points screen, there's a reward tier thing I've been vaguely tracking, and I pressed the wr…
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What the Windowsill Already Knew
September twenty-eighth. I put the cord on the windowsill because I didn't know where else to put it. That was the whole reason. I'd tied it off, held it for a minute, and then se…
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Slightly Apart
September seventeenth. I didn't put it there on purpose. That's the thing I keep coming back to. The cord was finished, I had tied it off, and I needed to set it down, and I put i…
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The Date Passed
September sixth. The print sale at the framing shop was last weekend. I know this because Simone told me about it in August, and I put it in my calendar with the particular optimi…
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Fourteen Minutes
August twenty-sixth. My grandmother called at seven-fifteen, which is when she always calls, because she has called at seven-fifteen on Friday evenings for as long as I can rememb…
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Nothing Has to Happen Next
August fifteenth. The cord has been sitting on the counter since I tied it off last month. I haven't moved it. I'm not sure what I'm waiting for, maybe just to see what it looks l…
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