I met Marie almost nineteen years ago at the bookstore. She was three years older than I was, but we got along marvelously. We had similar intellects, values, and senses of humor. She was hella cool. -5. Well, it didn’t take long for me to like her—as in walk-around-in-a-haze, write-her-stupid-poetry-that-no-one-would-ever-read-but-me like her. Couple that with … Read more
I’ve been hesitant to make too many lifestyle changes simultaneously. More than once, I’ve gotten mentally excited about living correctly, and tried to quit smoking, eat healthier, and get more exercise, all starting on a Monday morning. That’s not a recipe for just failure. That’s a recipe for spinning completely to pieces, with rivets flying … Read more
Lea and I built our house, in a subdivision that used to be a cotton field, seven years ago. It’s not quite shonuff “out in the country,” but it’s definitely not two blocks off a thoroughfare like Lea’s house, where we lived for three years, was. We didn’t move far—about 15 miles the way the … Read more