Posts from February 2013
The Record Books
What if Abbey Road had been a book instead of an album? How about Exile on Main Street? The Rockpot is selling packs of gorgeous postcards and prints of just such imaginations. I love the ones for Violator and Brothers in Arms. I love all of them, actually. They also have theoretical iOS app logos
Alternate Endings
The war seemed as far away as the football games of some one else’s college.
Happy Valentine’s Day
My favorite love poems
Six Months
Today marks the six month anniversary of my mother’s death. She died on Sunday, August 12, 2012. Not every month is the same length, though, of course. And should I consider “a month” to be “every four Sundays” or simply “the next 12th on the calendar”? It’s the sort of question she would call to
The Offseason
In which I mourn the ending of another college football season
Stretch, Run, Stretch
About two weeks ago, on January 17th, Dr. Sohail Shayfer told me I was suffering from iliotibial band syndrome. He told me to take a break from running so much, to take two Aleve naproxen sodium tablets every twelve hours for four weeks, and to stretch, stretch, stretch. I’ve never stretched before or after a