the Nixionary

Driving.
It makes you sit with things you haven’t sat with in a while:
Age. Yourself. Yourself at your age and all the ages you’ve seen in others but haven’t felt even though you know you will one day and some numbers might not necessarily feel as good as now. Hunger. If hunger continues to increase. For [...]

After I stuffed a bunch of thick sweaters in my Alaska-bound bag, I went to the pool to wash off the residue of moving. I’ve never understood how so much dust can get into closets and boxes laying dormant. Some of the sweatshirts I haven’t worn for a while were covered in what looked like [...]

When I arrived at my friend’s house for dinner last night, she was on the phone. “Do we bury it or bring it back to you?” she asked.  I put the bottle of wine on the counter and shifted some strawberries in a bowl.  “Ok,” she continued. “So we don’t have to bring back the [...]

Last night, as I was just sitting down to address some long overdue mail, there was a screech, a crash, and then my neighbor yelling, “Get out of the car! Get out of the car!” When I looked down, there was hers, all smushed up into itself like a lunch sack, and Luke’s parked truck [...]