I sat briefly with two policemen at Starbucks this morning. Just sat my ass right down at their table. They were on break and hadn’t invited me to join them, but whatever. I wanted to know whether it’s legal for joggers to jog in the road when traffic is present. I wanted to know this […]
Social skills, I’ve found, are like muscles. You use them or you lose them. Similarly, social situations are like exercise. They require effort. More effort if you’re flabby, less effort if you’re ripped. I’ve never been ripped. If I concentrate, though, I can just about remember a time when I was relatively fit, when I […]
I spent most of Saturday morning at the scene shop in Inman building a window perch for what one person calls my “imaginary friend.” As in, will I ever stop preparing to adopt a cat and actually adopt one. The answer, I think, is that I’m using these preparations to acclimatize myself to the idea […]
