Years ago I lived in Amish country, a little east of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. There were some Amish farms on my road, and there were kids in the neighborhood. As Halloween approached, I felt a bit giddy inside — there were kids in the neighborhood! Halloween! Amish kids! Halloween! I’d never really lived anywhere that trick-or-treatingContinue reading “On Halloweens Past”
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On More Writing Insights
I was at the local Hallmark store today. I walked past it, on my way to the grocery store on my lunch break, and something in the window must’ve caught my eye. And so, I found myself looking at Christmas ornaments and Barry Manilow CDs. I didn’t buy anything. I saw a half dozen ornamentsContinue reading “On More Writing Insights”
On Laundry
The rain storms broke Saturday morning. I had laundry to do, but I didn’t do it Saturday. Instead, I did it this morning. And I hung it out on the clothesline. It wasn’t warm today — mid-50s — but it was bright and it was clear. Perfect drying weather. Laundry done on the line justContinue reading “On Laundry”
On the Newest Find
People get rid of stuff at work, and then it’s free for the taking. Usually it’s comic books. Sometimes it’s magazines. I’ve picked up some manga here and there. Even a Torchwood DVD. But home improvement products? Not usually… Someone put a Superman Light Switch Plate on the reading rack yesterday. A couple turns ofContinue reading “On the Newest Find”
On Drinking a Coke
The vending machine was out of root beer. I didn’t feel like taking a ride on the elevator to the basement to buy an overpriced root beer from the cafe in the basement. I hit the button for Coke. I couldn’t remember the last time I’d had a Coke. Funny, that. The red aluminum can,Continue reading “On Drinking a Coke”
On the Morning
Blech. It’s cloudy. It’s dreary. It’s wet. Blech.
On a Chinese Fortune
Nothing says an urban clime like a hole-in-the-wall Chinese restaurant with a cheap lunch special within walking distance of the office. Orange chicken. Niiiiiiicccccccccce. I got a fortune, too — 🙂 You will have good luck and overcome many hardships. 🙂 Okay, it’s so vague as to be on the point of uselessness, but there’sContinue reading “On a Chinese Fortune”
On Rugby Shirts
Doing the laundry this weekend I made a shocking — and tragic — discovery. My favorite rugby shirt has worn out. Why me? My favorite rugby shirt! Why me!
On My Thumbnail
Back in my college years an accident at work shattered one of my thumbnails. It grew back, sort of. Basically, at the the tip the thumbnail tends to detach from the nailbed, become fantastically painful, and then detach even more, sometimes nearly the whole of the thumbnail. It’s only within the past year that theContinue reading “On My Thumbnail”
On Blowouts
Add this to the list of things I would have been perfectly content to have never experienced in my life—a tire blowing out on the Baltimore Beltway at seventy miles per hour. It was about 8:30. I was a little past the I-795 merge when I noticed several things. One, the Beetle was rattling. Two,Continue reading “On Blowouts”