I was startled early yesterday morning when a man digging through a sidewalk cigarette canister dead ahead of me went a wee bit bonkers, kicking the pavement with his incongruously clean work boots and shouting in short, nonsensical bursts. He didn’t look well, either. 20s, maybe, but ossified. White T-shirt dingy to an uneven shade […]
Greenville’s brush with the rogue “polar vortex” last night didn’t produce the minus-50 windchill that some parts of the country enjoyed, but it was plenty cold just the same. Seven degrees actual. So the heat pump, which normally stays off, is staying on for a few days and the car, which normally stays parked, is […]
An elderly man sitting on the curb this morning as I walk into town. The air around him heavy with metabolized alcohol and, more distantly, rancid human waste. “Can you help me get something to eat?” he says. A cloth sack in one hand, a tiny American flag in the other. “Sure,” I say. I […]
