Category: Personal
-
Why I Will Not Go on the Boat and What This Means for Writing
We were sitting on our living room floor after dinner on Thursday night last week, my wife and I, when she told me her cousin’s husband had extended me the invitation to go out on a fishing boat with him, his two sons, and my brother-in-law the following week.
-
Too-Big Box Springs, The Counting Crows, & Cohabitation
How many brothers does it take to carry a queen-size box spring up a narrow flight of stairs?
-
Where the Line Is
There’s a short story by Denis Johnson, “Emergency”. Maybe you know it. If you don’t, let me tell you a little about its most compelling scenes, the ones I can’t seem to get out of my head lately. The protagonist and Georgie are orderlies, and Georgie keeps mopping the floor of an otherwise spotless operating…
Patrick Faller 