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Shitty news
I woke up this morning from unsettling sleep to find Angie scrolling through Facebook news on her iPhone. “I’ve got bad news. Frank has non-Hodgkins lymphoma.” She showed me his post, from 7:45 am....
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Acceptance
After a long and emotionally difficult week, I came home last night and went straight to bed. Today is Angie’s birthday — an automatic pick-me-up. What’s more, I got a call this morning from Lucy...
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Day 14: Knoxville, unexpectedly
Dear God, I’m not sure I believe in you, at least not in the standard Judeo-Christian monotheistic single spiritual entity sort of way, but I think you generally hold a lot of sway over these parts,...
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Day 16: Raleigh
If I were still in Tacoma and asked to drive four hours, even if for a fun day-trip or weekend adventure, I’d say screw it. Too far. Four hours gets you nearly to Spokane. It gets you past Eugene,...
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Why is this night different?
I got up this morning feeling confused, displaced. Angie woke me sometime after my 7:30 alarm. “Time to get up,” she sang. She placed a mug of coffee by my nightstand. This is usually my job. I’m the...
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Veni, Vidi, Docui
So teaching went pretty well, I’d say. I was predictably nervous before class on Thursday, made more so by the fact that I had a late afternoon class, and all day long in Tompkins Hall I was racing to...
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Farewell, Wayward Sister!
I handed in my MFA thesis yesterday. In one week I’ll meet with my committee to defend it. I’m not going to paint you a picture of a bloodsport, nor of nail-biting suspense. The defense will pretty...
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In Which Our Hero Returns…Triumphant?
This is the first part in a series of catch-up posts. If you aren’t interested in reading about me (and honestly, aside from my family a few patient friends—bless your hearts—who is?) then you may...
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In Which Our Hero Returns … Triumphant? Part 2
II. Speed Bump or Opportunity? My parents and in-laws came to visit for graduation. It was lovely. We went to the beach, spent time together, and they kindly refrained from too much talk about the...
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In Which Our Hero Returns … Triumphant? Part 3
III. Transmogrification I licked my wounds for the next week and a half, as I geared up for Sewanee. I had no idea what to expect from the two-week long writing conference. All I knew was that I had...
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