Gerald Jr. Brought a Bottle Cap
Three weeks running, there has been a crow on the window ledge of the bouldering gym. Not every session, but often enough that Simone and I have started checking before we warm up…
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September Followed Through
The temperature dropped sometime between Tuesday climbing and Wednesday yoga and I did not notice until I was already outside this morning with a scarf I'd grabbed mostly out of h…
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An Hour I Didn't Plan For
I called Carol to check in. That was the plan: a check-in, maybe fifteen minutes, the kind of call that gets made on a Wednesday evening when the week has been unremarkable and yo…
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The Bag Had Other Plans
The paper grocery bag held on through self-checkout, through the walk to the bus stop, through the entire ride home, through the front door, and then, at the precise moment I set…
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The Warp Has Opinions
Third session of the rigid heddle weaving class and I think my wrists filed a formal complaint somewhere around the forty-minute mark. Not a complaint about pain, more the specifi…
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The Shed Is the Gap
First session of the rigid heddle weaving class was last Thursday and I have been sitting with how to write about it for five days, which is about four days longer than it deserve…
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The Disc Has a Name
The drop-in ceramics session was listed on the community center board as 'beginner-friendly, no experience necessary,' and I want to be clear that they meant that as reassurance,…
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Fitted Sheet Theory
There is a fitted sheet in this apartment that has never been folded correctly. Not once. Three years and I am convinced it is structural, something in the elastic, something in t…
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Both Casualties
Saturday afternoon and Simone brought the groceries in through the door already talking, which is how most of our kitchen sessions start, some fact she picked up mid-week that nee…
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What the Band Was Doing
Midnight. Not late-night-by-accident midnight but the scheduled kind, the kind you have to mean. Simone had texted a screenshot of the listing two weeks ago with no message attach…
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