I’ve been up for almost a day now and I’m ready to get unconscious again. I’ve been waiting to have something wise or summarative or conclusive about the day, but that’s not working any better than me having something like…
Category: The Long Tunnel
Silence is Rotten
So, I’m not sure my whole volunteering plan is going to work out that well. Debate works as a distraction from my vast emotional pain for two reasons. For one, it is a reaffirmation that I have some modicum of…
Rain-Dance
Debate seems to have this transcendent power to lift me up in the darkest times. Suffice it to say times have been pretty dark, so thank goodness I chose to spend a year focusing on debate. I don’t know what…
For the First Time
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…
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…
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…