There was a sleepy kiss on her forehead, lingering but soft. She shifted slightly on her side, buckling the silky sheets under her hip. It was humid in the room; even with the lazy turn of the fan blades above her she was still warm. When she exhaled with the effort of lifting herself to [...]
Conversation before bed one night: Her: What happened to the toilet? Me: I cleaned it. Her: Huh. Weird. It’s 10:30pm and I’m waiting for bread to rise. Way back in the pantry, I found a “European Cheese and Herb” bread machine bread mix. I don’t even have a bread machine. There are instructions on how [...]
Being late isn’t easy. There is a lot of fretting and thinking and procrastinating and forgetting involved. There’s list-making, and list-losing. There’s emailing myself with points to ponder. People in the creative biz can tell you that sometimes it’s only a looming deadline that can push a project through the banner. I now see that [...]
