When this man covers my little green hand (it is green – my mother was Italian and our skin is green as olives) with his large brown hand it is as warm and large and snug as a shell for a snail or a hollow tree for a rabbit (as I imagine it must be). […]
Don’t Drop By
“I was in the neighborhood. So I thought I’d drop by.” Don’t just drop by. “We knocked on the door and you weren’t in so we left this door tag.” Don’t just drop by. “I rang the doorbell but you weren’t home.” Don’t just drop by. “I know our appointment was at 3 but I […]
Don’t Worry About Those Doggies
Every morning when I take my 10-pound chihuahua pug out to go for a walk the 75- and 100-pound dogs up the hill come outside to bark and threaten and square their broad chests and level their muscular shoulders and all the short, stiff black, tan, grey and white hair on my little dog’s neck […]
Fractals
One of my students during group work during discussion time during sharing time during collaboration and discourse time has instead been drawing elaborate and increasingly expanding fractals on the wall hidden by a column next to his mini-desk. I would have noticed this much earlier in the semester if I had walked around the room […]
My Beloved Gonenesses
The ghosts of my life are getting more numerous. Where are these presences these left-over nesses in my ever-receding and dwindling and aging memories? Where are they in some deeper way than in thoughts of those with whom they were? What does it mean that they were here? What are the essences that remain? What […]
Fifty and Counting 