a library story
I went back to the town — I went to high school in. Okay not really the town I went to high school in. A town on a long highway lined by small towns where I lived and one of those towns, I went to high school […]
I went back to the town — I went to high school in. Okay not really the town I went to high school in. A town on a long highway lined by small towns where I lived and one of those towns, I went to high school […]
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I am missing — The dogs. It hurts, this missing. I want my dogs. Not new dogs. MY dogs. And I want to go home.* *Home does not exist. I attended nine elementary schools, lived in so many places — including cars and garages and floors — growing up there is no […]
There was a kid — In grammar school. His name was Joey. He wore shit clothes. Horrible cast off clothes. Like corduroy coats. He was a foster kid. He was tiny. Smaller than other boys. He wore bad glasses. Big rimmed glasses that probably came off the cheapest ugliest conveyor line of glasses ever. […]
My friend Tom’s cat went missing in Valley Village, California last night around 7 PM. His name is Alec Baldwin, Mr. B for short. He has tags and is very friendly but is probably scared and hiding after escaping a house fire. Tom’s number is on his collar or if the collar is missing […]
When is the last time — You thought about an earthquake? When is the last time you checked earthquake supplies? If you live in Connecticut fine. If you live in California? Go check the supplies. And also check this checklist. This is a Red Cross list: WATER * Store water in plastic containers such […]
This is a re-post. Read it anyway — There is a lot of fighting about the Triangle of Life because it contradicts the old Drop and Cover advice that has been in disaster pamphlets for a long long time [like a hundred years, seriously, with no updates] and used to be the only earthquake […]
Most of my childhood — Has burned or shaken away. Forget mudslides. Which everyone pretends is an aberration, not a regular thing. I remember kids taking pieces –– small pieces because it was rubble — of the roof away from a grammar school I attended. The whole administration building went down during a […]
I told someone once — He had to be more there or not there at all just go away because the way I grew up, I never knew if anyone was coming back for me after they dropped me off. What I maybe left out was, you could not count on the ground or […]