At Least They're Committed

When the sirens went off, we gathered our cell phones and nothing else and quickly made our way to the basement. The smell was dank and the darkness foreboding as we huddled together, awaiting our fate as the rain and hail pelted the windows upstairs and the wind and thunder rolled like wrath ever nearer Read more

I’d been craving Taki’s since the Thursday before last because even though Brian is in Cleveland he still knows the neighborhood I work in better than I do because he lived not so far away. He agrees that hill is killer, by the way. No matter, I needed to grab lunch because I’d forgotten mine Read more

Having completed the first section of the Blubrry newsletter to some satisfaction, I down the last swallow of milk before it gets too warm and bank the plastic bottle into the recycling bin. Two points! My stellar acuity prompts me to attempt a follow-up shot — the bottle cap — this shot complete with a Read more

If I’d had the results in hand I would have looked through them and ceremoniously tossed them into the waste basket. But I didn’t. They’re online, so I instead roll my eyes and click off the link. Another false alarm. Liver panel: normal. Basic metabolic panel: normal. In each of these reports there are a Read more

No. It couldn’t be. I’d logged off Linked In as myself and then back on as someone else, thinking I would “Like” as someone more official a strand of communications I’d initiated last week and had added to minutes before. Logged on as Important, I moved the cursor to the conversation when, to my horror, Read more

Across the country fourth graders are each year handed a stack of crudely drawn pictures with pre-written titles and encouraged to write a short story about both elements. In the case of Edisonsblackdahlia, formerly known as DSII, the results of his efforts came home in a book bound together by a construction paper cover and Read more