The water has started to rise and there are snakes. Full-grown anacondas fleeing my basement, yellow and gray and black, and I wonder whether it’s common for people to coexist with snakes, hidden until a natural disaster drives them out into the open. Yet that’s exactly what I seem to have been doing. Coexisting with […]
A sweet but sneezy barista pulled my coffee at Cup of Flow this morning. In fact, she sneezed while she was doing so, which was none too appetizing, so I took the coffee back to my table and stared at it for a while before throwing it away, untouched. Then I left. “Thank you for […]
A friend told me about the roadside sign she’d seen driving Highway 290 between Taylors and Greer: “There is no free cheese in the mouse trap,” it said. A sermon teaser for a tiny non-denominational church. I have to wonder what the cheese agreed to accept in exchange for its freedom. Or did it have […]
