I loved it immediately, though I was surprised when my mother approved it.
Hank sucked what was left of his cigarette back in one pull and flicked it into the alley. The hot light of the ember cartwheeled through the air before disappearing into the snow.
Because of its hardiness and tendency to escape cultivation, these non-native wisterias are considered invasive species in... more
Sometimes I stop talking to my boyfriend for no reason.
Dan Dority (W. Earl Brown) & Travis Tritt; Trixie (Paula Malcomson) & Natalie Maines; Wild Bill Hickok (Keith Carradine) & Alan Jackson; Calamity Jane Cannery (Robyn Wiegert) & Gretchen Wilson; Johnny Burns (Sean Bridgers) & Dierks Bentle
The lyrics say "He never never lied." Is that possible? Or even desirable?
I write this from a subterranean lair packed tight with things: books, CDs, LPs, cassettes, an old laptop or two, and... more
We’ve taken our son, my wife and I, to get his first haircut. He is nearly two, and once I place him in the seat they’ve... more
I didn’t know how long it’d been since he’d last eaten. I also knew he needed water.
“Hm,” Yoda grunted, considering the foyer, it’s openness, how exposed he was, and what he could do about it. “Hm,” he grunted again.
The last night of the trip, you stay with one of his friends in Vallecitos, New Mexico.
When my mother built me
again, she did not wait for sobs
to pass. She left clasps undone
then wept in her bedroom.
Soon sunlight would be replaced by nighttime. I felt this, the same way my grandma could feel the rain coming on.
You also didn’t know that, in a few short years, your parents would discover your stash of illicit hip-hop and hard rock tapes.
I don't notice anything when the television is on. A bomb could go off in my kitchen and I wouldn't notice the wreckage until the next commercial break.
He tells them, pays for the burgers and, as they drive to the mall, as if to encourage them, a general addressing his troops, he tells them about fights with broken bottles, about fighting the black kids because he was white, the Italian and Polish kids because he was Jewish, the rich kids because he was poor.
In 1994, I subscribe to a magazine for wholesome Christian tweens, recommended by the Amy Grant fan. My mom approves; unlike the ones I sneak into our grocery cart, its cover never hints at sex.
When I wasn’t on the road, I ate lunch at the diner just to watch Cathy polish the cutlery.
the man who touches you also touches
the other women of the city, this special
man who you chose to be... more
Maybe ‘white trash American girl’ is a compliment over there?
Like a punch. Like Margera. BAM.
The Brooklyn Academy of Music is smaller than the Met and cheaper than the Met... more
Well, at least we aren't just dead, she said.
What?
At least we aren't dead, right?
Yeah.
In the 150 years before the typewriter reached mass production and public consciousness, there were a wealth of origin stories and nearly a hundred inventors: a medical doctor in New York; the head of an institution for the blind in England; a bicycle inventor in Germany; a priest in Brazil.
When our baby arrives I am feeling a funny mix of elation and terror – what have we done?
My mother crooned “Poetry Man” in the car between errands and have-to-be’s as in, “We have to be home by six,” or, “You have to be at piano rehearsal at three thirty.”
A woman at our airport gate is eating a box of powdered donut holes and not licking her lips. She is capable... more
