Monthly Archives: September 2024

I go to the museum every few weeks. Sometimes there’s a specific show to see; other times it’s just because. This is one of those. I don’t know what I’m looking for. I get a coffee in the weird little pocket cafe on the second level of the Modern wing. It’s situated in a pass-throughContinue reading “Period Piece”

Every time I finish a book I think it will be my last. The expense—be it financial, emotional, durational—never seems worth the result. But then I remind myself the result’s not what I’m in it for. I mean, I want everybody to read and look at my books, of course, but I make them becauseContinue reading “We Take Everything”

I’m not one to move furniture around. I tend to leave things where they are. Once, I lived with a woman who changed the living room furniture around every other week. It was crazy-making. I like things the way they are and want them that way forever. Still, there are times when you have toContinue reading “Feng Shui”