The first time I saw you I was sitting in the back pew of a church. You stood up dressed like a Kennedy, wearing a white shirt, a red bow tie, a navy wool sports jacket and khakis. You spoke about Medieval Japan and Portuguese missionaries crucified upside down and I inhaled your words, verbal pheromones [...]
Meat Loaf, “You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night)”
DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, “Summertime”
Jens Lekman, “A Sweet Summer’s Night on Hammer Hill”
His Name Is Alive, “Summer Left Your Heart Behind”
Stan Getz, “Summertime”
Sam Cook, “Summertime”
Grandaddy, “Summer … It’s Gone”
Fotheringay, “Two Weeks Last Summer”
Simone White, “I Didn’t Have a Summer [...]
Jen and I took a little break from the big city and went to Sequoia last week.
We saw pretty trees and bushes . . .
pretty trees and a mountain . . .
trees of enormous size . . .
and beauty.
We hiked.
We stopped and unpacked . . .
to rest.
We packed it all up again . [...]
Recent true events:
• I misplaced the turquoise ring my mother gave me. I always thought it was a romantic ring – maybe one my father had given her. I asked her what it meant to her (without telling her I’d lost it), and she said she’d had it made after The Divorce. Since that conversation, [...]
Where do you go for spring break? I know the question is quite untimely, but deal with it, I wrote this a few months ago, but never got around to editing and linking it. Now with last week’s news that Jenna Bush is engaged to be married, this post is suddenly quite timely again. Not [...]