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we all scream

I drop Mo off at the pottery studio, leaving me with a couple of hours to kill. It’s an unfamiliar neighborhood, so i wander about aimlessly in far north PHX. I end up at a generic shopping center, not unlike … Continue reading

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this’ll be the last time that i do your hair

Laura, can’t you give me some time?I got to give myself one more chanceto be the best man that I know I am—  “You have a nail in your tire.” I’m thinking Mo is making a brilliant philosophical analogy as … Continue reading

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you win thumb, you lose thumb

Mo came home recently clutching her left hand after a crash on her bike. She thought she might have broken her left thumb in the fall. I assured her if she had broken her thumb, she would know it. Probably … Continue reading

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the cursor blinked where her mind was

Some people were very excited to care about Russia again.Others were not going to do it no matter what. Because above all else,the Cold War had been embarrassing. Not just the ideas, but the jeans. — Patricia Lockwood, “No One … Continue reading

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mo sheppo, birding expert

me: What kind of bird is that? mo: A white one. me: Well, sure. But what about the other one? mo: Also a white one. Mo is a genius. I should probably write these names down so I don’t have … Continue reading

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