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12/22/09 Stella speaks to me. Directly. She chirps and her eyebrows go up and down and they furrow in a strangely familiar way The...

10/3/09 "Do you ever think that the American family is suffering a crisis. When you look around you, do you see the family falling apart....

9/24/09 She's here. Officially an individual. The previous nine months of preparation, fuss, and hype still haven't lived up to the...

9/13/09 For the past month and a half, I've resided in fellowship with a tiny spider that lives on my windowsill. While I was in...

8/26/09 "That one," my mom said, and pointed at a fish swimming a little away from the rest, its mouth opening and closing silently, its...

8/17/09 trying to warn lawrie of the dangers of the internet, but i can't quite figure out how to tell it. "there are... bad things......

7/14/09 about a week ago, i passed by an old bald man leaning on a walker. wanting to appear friendly and local, i smiled at him. he...

6/29/09 i love tattoos. it's kind of a stupid fascination. tattoos can be inexcusably expensive and trendy and in bad taste, but i like...

6/25/09 when she is driving, i look at her wrists because they are almost exactly like mine, except paler. my wrists attach her hands to...

5/1/09 at times it occurs to me, terrifyingly, how small my life is. if i were to add up its parts, with the things i do and why i do...

4/28/09 pollen on my laptop. leaves on my bedspread. it seems a sin to have the windows closed on such a breeze. i hang my laundry...

3/13/09 she was one of the people i met in the park that night when we brought our squishy tuna sandwiches and the coolers of iced tea to...

2/8/09 On the third and last leg of our flight back to the US, I tried to ignore the fact that there was something stuck between my toes....

1/13/09 one of the two problems with life, here, as humans, is that there are these other humans, see, and you can't just ignore them. ...