Anthropologists from Space
What will the anthropologists that visit us from space make of it all? What will they make of our face masks… protection from a virus, or just adornments for our mouths, like an heirloom brooch or cheap flashy earrings? What will they make of all these words on our t-shirts: Coke, Obama/Biden ‘08, Penn State,…
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This week I am…
This week I am… Driving kids places, again and again endlessly Resisting dessert some days, eating three brownies another Rearranging furniture in my basement, making a sewing space, reorganizing the supplies, so much aspirationally-purchased fabric it fills a dresser, yet I have sewn exactly once in this house since I moved in Selling off furniture…
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Little things
He forgot to read his book for school today. This he realized as he was putting on shoes to leave for school this morning after a leisurely four-day weekend. Instantly he transformed, from boisterous, cheerful almost-middle-school weirdo to panicked, shame-filled, sobbing nine year old. Oh, my child. I know how it feels. I know how…
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