Dings
In a few moments the red timer will ring. It just did. It is exactly 4:00 p.m. The red timer marks off the ten minutes for which I boil my eggs (which leaves the yolk just the tiny bit soft, but not liquid) the three minutes for which I steep my coca tea (which imparts […]
Read MoreSpectacles, Marriage & Civilization
I am getting closer to my glasses, I can feel it. Ever since I was robbed of my spectacles in South America, I’ve been dawdling in replacing them. But lately I’ve been picking up momentum. Every time I see an optician I duck in and try on all the frames. I’ll ask the salespeople to […]
Read MoreThe Greatest Caper That Never Was
Momentarily contemplating committing insurance fraud and disappearing forever into the Intangible Zone.
Read MoreReading Hemingway on BART on the way to jetBlue Flight 644
I had skipped ahead to the end of the Hemingway novel and knew it was sad. The soldier’s lover hemorrhaged after their baby was born dead. I read slowly from the middle after that, dreading the ending. But now on the train to the airport I was close to the end. The soldier and his […]
Read MoreFriends of Moynihan Station
Yesterday, I spent the afternoon writing in the New York Public Library. I thought it might be different to write in an enormous room full of marble and hardwood. It wasn’t. I was still there and so was the blank page. It was just like writing at home, except that when I leaned back in […]
Read MoreMedical Drama
The doctor on television is desperately giving CPR to a character who’s only just been introduced in this episode, not even a special guest star but someone you vaguely recognize as having played the husband of the woman who was killed on the legal show and maybe the paramedic from the other medical drama, the […]
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