“When I sit down to write I will reveal to myself what I already know.” Jamaica Kincaid.
worst/best February 8, 2010
the smell of coffee being made in another room / when someone stops me in the street and asks me for directions.
February 7, 2010
i think maybe we all know what we want. it’s just a matter of how broken up you’re willing to be over not having it.
February 7, 2010
as long as i have enough going on in my life that i have stories to tell, and as long as i have people to tell those stories to, i will be more than ok.
January 26, 2010
i work at the student call center for my university, which means that i listen to the phone ring and if someone picks it up i update their information and ask them if they want to make a donation. every once in a while something interesting happens.
tonight i heard the click of the phone getting picked up, then a series of footsteps, then a really soft female voice speaking french, then another click of hanging up.
January 24, 2010
they should make a word for when you fall in love with someone but you don’t stay together and then later they go on to do great things.
January 16, 2010
it’s possible that when all you ask of someone is their honesty, you’re asking for more than you think. to really be honest with you i have to be honest with me. i have to figure out something that is true.
January 9, 2010
so it’s january now, and normally i would be saying “oh my god i can’t believe it’s january” but actually i can. this is my sort-of-obligatory-beginning-of-the-year post. i have never really believed in resolutions or that anything really begins on january first, it all seems pretty arbitrary to me (shouldn’t the year begin on the first day of spring or something like that?). but i do have to admit that for someone who doesn’t believe in starting over, i’ve been given quite a few chances to do just that. and i seem to be facing another one.
December 29, 2009
you don’t know who you are, so you write a character sketch of yourself. and you don’t pretend it’s anyone else. and then you kind of understand better.
maybe if i find a different way of saying things, i’ll find i have something to say.
