The One Sentence
April twenty-third. I looked it up. That's the sentence. I wrote it in my notebook first, which felt absurd, and then I typed it here, which felt more honest. The tab is still ope…
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Gerald Has Opinions
April twelfth. I moved Gerald about three inches to the left this morning, just to wipe down the shelf, nothing dramatic, and when I set him back I set him in the wrong spot by ab…
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The Tab I Didn't Close
April first. I looked it up. That's the sentence. That's the whole post, technically. Simone mentioned the posting at the end of a Tuesday session in late March, not as a suggesti…
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Seven Minutes With the Menu
March twenty-first. The restaurant has about nine seats at the counter and I was the only one who came alone, which I did not fully think through until I sat down and realized the…
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The Chair Situation
March tenth. The laundromat on a Sunday morning is a very specific exercise in letting go of expectations, and the main expectation I let go of was that I would find a chair. Simo…
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The Elevator Was Out
February twenty-seventh. My neighbor knocked on my door at six-forty Wednesday evening with the expression of a person who has just done math they didn't want to do. The elevator…
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The Night We Almost Didn't Go
February ninth. We had not actually planned this. Simone texted at six-fifteen saying she was nearby after running an errand and did I want to get one drink somewhere, and I had b…
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The Almost Portion of the Evening
February fifth. We were supposed to leave at seven. It was seven thirty-eight when we actually got out the door, which is about right for any evening that starts with Simone stand…
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From the Other Direction
January twenty-fifth. We were unlacing shoes on the bench after the Tuesday session, the usual wind-down, the part where neither of us is ready to go back out into the cold, and S…
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What Patient Looks Like
January fourteenth. The apartment is very quiet this morning and I have been sitting with that fact for about twenty minutes, trying to decide if it needs anything done about it.…
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