the latest posts tagged ‘brother’
almost midnight on the west edge
A couple nights ago I went to pick up a pizza just after sunset. It was cold – in the 30s – in the parking lot of the little mall where the pizza place shoulders against the post office, the bike shop and the nail salon. I parked near the last red-ribboned…
turn turn turn
Waiting for someone you love to die, I told a writer friend last week, is one of the circles of Hell. He said, “You should write about your view from the spiral because you will never be exactly there again.” It is a monstrous eyewall, the inside of a spinning, screaming…
riding with lady luck
The path of each life is like a rope, a thick braid that fate or luck weaves into the cosmic macrame, curling around someone else’s rope to form a knot, then angling away, eventually bumping into another strand or two or three or six, gliding along next to them for a while, knotting…
a rock and roll band’s child of god
There was an eclectic soup of people at my stepmother’s memorial fête last November in Carmel: the last of her old Friends For Life, a handful of family, dozens of sad pals who had loved her for decades, a couple oblivious hangers-on, a few furtive cranks gossiping in the back over the cheese about…
the gravity of water and mistakes
Our mother had terrible hair and not enough of it. A bad combination of fine, thin, soft and straight, she and her hairdresser bleached and rolled, ratted and pulled it into a poufy platinum ball every Friday, spraying enough lacquer on it to varnish a fair-sized coffee table. The style was Phyllis McGuire with…
a hole the size of jupiter
Imagine a balance scale with the same number of thick brass plugs on each pan. If you remove a weight from the left pan, it will rise. If you add that weight to the right pan, the left pan will rise twice as much. Assume the left pan weighs Craig’s suffering and the right…