I am doing my dishes for the first time taking care not to nick, chip, scratch the shiny new colors as they turn in my yellow-gloved hands The sink is smaller now the light harsher, more grim but my hands…
Category: A Day in the Life
Picture This
Today had a good energy, at least at the outset. I want to capture that feeling, that sense of purpose and excitement that I began the day with, without compromising this post to say how I feel right now. The…
In the Money
This past weekend was a good one. As always, you can check out the Rutgers Debate blog for details on how things went for the team. They neither disappointed nor went over the top this weekend, though they were frustrated…
Crying and Cardboard
We box a lot of stuff up in this life. We take surprises and things we’re not sure why we’re keeping and treasured mementos and donations and nestle them against three-dimensional paper structures whose only purpose is to contain such…
Back to the Beans
Boston, it’s been a while. Today is slated to mark my first return to the city I lovingly call The Beans since a 2006 trip to compete with Emily in the Boston University tournament four years after our graduation. Wouldn’t…
Cheap Like the Budgy
Since a certain person who will remain nameless recently took a significant bite out of financial crime, I find myself facing wholly different circumstances on that front to go with my different circumstances on every other front. While part of…
Good News, Sad News
Many thanks to Madeleine Sumption for carving the pumpkin that Matthew “Fish” McFeeley photographed to create this year’s October theme-change here at StoreyTelling. For four years now, the annual October theme picture has been of pumpkins carved at the prior…
When I Fall
“Hang on to your wallet hang on to your rings I can’t look below me something will throw me I curse at the windstorms that October brings … I wish I could fly from this building from this wall and…
Pre-Debate Morning
There is a special kind of anticipation that comes with waking up knowing that something exciting or fun or worthwhile is going to happen that day. The feeling that things are not for naught, that one does not regret feeling…
One-Way Train
When I got on the train bound for New York City yesterday, I didn’t think I was boarding a time machine. I thought I was embarking on a conventional landbound vehicle for a city long hated, long tolerated, long rearing…