I was in the middle of a serious WiiFit session when the door bell rang. I picked Molly the Corgi up because she is crazy and I walked over to the foyer. We don’t have windows or a peephole so I couldn’t see who it was before I opened the door.
Standing there was a man [...]
Diana and I started talking about having children about a year and a half ago, and I knew we had moved from the realm of dreamy ponderance and into the area of serious business when the conversation about names came up. Names are secret things, full of power. When you start thinking about a future [...]
Written in 2001. This is not strictly non-fiction, but almost everything is true? The geography may also be a little skewed.
I stopped in New London on my way from Boston to New Haven once. If I remember correctly, I could see the whole town from the top of the hill, looking down into the bay. [...]
As for the connection between quitting my job and New York City, I think it is buried somewhere within the recesses of situational relevance - right here and now, in the fluid present, I’m in this situation and unhappy with it. In the past and future (if they can be separated as such) I’m in New York City and I’m happy. What’s happening here is making me think of what’s happening there, right here and now.
In 2000, I went to the doctor for the first time in a few years. I had been going quite a bit in 1998 and 1999 for my hands. I was a percussionist as a first career - the kind you have from the age of 5 to 19 - and my dedication to it [...]