a poem: it will be okay and things always work themselves out in the end

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  i don’t use question marks in my journal the curve isn’t something my pencil likes to make i find other ways to doubt and to wonder when i imagine a future anthropologist discovering my pages i think of the way he will write it down in textbooks that americans in the early 2000s used [...] Continue Reading »

yes this is real

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I talked to a man about a dishwasher on Craigslist this afternoon and made a dash out to Seymour to check it out, but that’s beside the point and maybe a different story altogether. The Henley Bridge is out, as all Knoxvillians know, and going to South Knoxville is something you have to be intentional [...] Continue Reading »

16 weeks of parenting

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And boy have I learned a lot.  I know how to fold and fasten a cloth diaper, how to swaddle up a youngun, install a carseat, and  how to nurse while lying down.  Sixteen weeks ago I had no idea just how perfunctory these things are. For me, parenting is a giant stretch toward being [...] Continue Reading »

i used to know that

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I’ve been reading The Scientist in the Crib by Gopnik, Meltzoff, and Kuhl and learning about the ways babies are so very amazing. We all began with such remarkable capabilities. The chapter on Language acquisition is most interesting.  Here’s an excerpt: “The way we categorically perceive speech is unique to each language.  In English we make a sharp categorical [...] Continue Reading »

the fiesta verdict, peeking in a Serro Scotty camper, and kentucky bound in the morning

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  In the calm after the storm yesterday we drove to Sevierville to the Rebel Dish Barn.  It’s the largest Fiesta store in the South, new and vintage.  I compared my stuff with his and I do have exactly what I thought. We stopped on the way home at Camper World.  They don’t have Airstreams [...] Continue Reading »

knowing things

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” No the point is not only does time fly or do we die, but that in these reckless conditions we live at all, and are vouchsafed for the duration of certain inexplicable moments, to know it.”   -Annie Dillard The question of how to spend the time is no new one.  If we’re willing [...] Continue Reading »