I only met one of my grandparents and she died a few years after I hit double digits. I’ve heard stories. I’ve seen pictures and yet the image I have of them is so incomplete that as strongly as I am rooted in my family, there are a few roots missing. I gained some insight [...]
Archive for June, 2009
5 year journal.
Posted in my life, tagged contemporary art, ellen, five years, grandparents, journal, letters, texas on June 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Caption Contest.
Posted in my life, tagged caption contest, ellen on June 29, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Best caption wins!
Brothers.
Posted in my life, tagged brother on June 26, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Mad Air.
Posted in my life, tagged airport, beach, boats, California, children, flea market, Madagascar, mango, RER, sand, sick, sun burn, Taxi, Tolstoy, vomit on June 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I don’t talk much about Madagascar and as much as I know why that is, I’m still not sure. I can tell you that I read four hundred plus pages of War and Peace on the plane while all the other kids were sleeping. They had started in California a full day before I met [...]
Triple Shot.
Posted in Triple Shots, tagged bathroom, houston, street, texas, welcome, wine on June 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Down the hall from an apartment I was staying in, there was a welcome mat outside a door with multiple locks. ——- Walking into a bathroom in the Houston Galleria, I heard one tourist say to another, “I like how the bathrooms are in two languages. It makes me feel like we’re in a third [...]
it’s been entirely too long since i’ve swam in the sea.
don’t wait up.
Posted in short shorts, tagged insomnia, orange juice, parks, sleep, summer on June 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Quiet now and someone left the lights on. Noticed it when I woke up for the bathroom. Maybe Andy had gotten up for some orange juice, left the light on again. She likes the sugar at night. I hate when the lights get left on. I like sleeping in places where I don’t know how [...]
You can’t not let him in.
Posted in short shorts, tagged apartment, dill, landlord, roommate, shoes on June 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
When ever my old landlord would come over, I never knew where to put my hands. You can’t sit down when these things happen and it would happen often. My roommate was never home and would leave empty beer bottles in well arranged pyramids near the kitchen window. The landlord would comment on them, not [...]
enter jeremy.
Posted in people on June 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Triple Shot. (The Great Texas Apartment Hunt)
Posted in Triple Shots, tagged apartment, beer, handicap, pool, real estate, rent, wine spritzers on June 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Real Estate Guy : This place is great if you like to drink beer by the pool. Jeremy : I prefer wine spritzers. Real Estate Guy : Really? You’re kidding. Jeremy : No. I make my own… It’s all about getting my buzz on. ——- We asked how we might be able to get a [...]
