Tag Archives: absence

the best question

probably the strangest question during my 9 hour job interview last week was the final question: how would you like us to remember you? me? yes.  how i would like you to remember me? am i understanding that correctly? yes.  … Continue reading

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where you are not

gosh, you should have seen me. in the pool you would have been astounded. i swam and i swam and i swam for almost an hour, rarely crashing into anything. but you weren’t there. and i felt your absence. the … Continue reading

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something

there are some who might say  you have a way of always taking nothing and turning it into something when it really really was nothing, but still, you made such a big deal out of it. and you just clung … Continue reading

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a sighting

it was starting to feel as if everything was crashing in on me. that state i am prone to fall into when you’re not around. by “you,” i guess i mean my communal you. i was so getting used to … Continue reading

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on a bender

another titanium neck migraine day which i tried to wash down in a bender of Dunkin Donuts coffee followed by 2 glasses of pear sake at my new favorite sushi joint. this came shortly after I tore my Patagonia down … Continue reading

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Yom Kippur eve

So far, i have atoned very minimally, if at all. i woke up with a yearning to atone, but really, what constitutes atonement? forgiveness for my moments of selfishness that were really not about acquiring things, but more selfish, perhaps, … Continue reading

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the way we were

she said, no worries it’s all good, i responded in response. then she asked, how can it all be good? i had an instinct that it all was, almost a premonition about something good. maybe not all of it, but … Continue reading

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another thing about summer is how it smells like flowers or trees or walnuts or deodorant or people who might be well served by deodorant or beer or too much cologne too much perfume  or tar… or spores.  you are … Continue reading

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