I packed a bag Wednesday night about midnight: a light one. Didn’t even have to do the zipper that expands its height like I do on normal weekend flights. Had coffee with friends; dropped off shirts at the cleaners; did some work a few hours; met 3 colleagues at Panera […]
I’ve actually dreaded tonight for the past 2 months, because of this conversation prohibiting my going out of town Friday. The one where I got dressed down in front of 2 of my peers by a little man who seems to lack authority in real life, so he must exert […]
When I was a senior in high school, I had a habit of pulling from a pile of outgrown t-shirts from the back of my father’s closet and wearing them to wrestling practice. These t-shirts were primarily from a phase my old man had in his late 30s that consisted […]
I love my fellow grammar snob friends. I got this email today from a girl (I guess she’s a woman now, like Neil Diamond and Urge Overkill told us would happen soon) who has been like a sister to me since we were in the 9th grade together (as in, […]
I just found the following sentences sitting in my “drafts” folder as part of a post I wrote in late January 2012; I obviously didn’t finish it: I’m normally excited about a new year: new goals; new resolutions; new chance to see Alabama play for a national championship. But this […]
