Sevi’s current favorite game. Where Papa says, “whatever you do, don’t do X” and Sevi then goes and does X with relish. Even if it means brushing her teeth, putting on pajamas etc, as long as it is in defiance of Papa. Who said reverse psychology wasn’t good for something. It did work like a…
Read morea belief in words
David Foster Wallace is a brilliant Rabelaisian fount, but lacks that belief in words, a strong emotional instinct akin to superstition that many perhaps lesser intellectual lights tend toward. Makes him undiscriminating in the way of the “mot juste”, the shrine of Hemingway, and why perhaps perceiving the lack he deifies someone like Paula Fox,…
Read moreblue m&ms
A mendicant curbside picking out the blue M&Ms from his palm and shaking them back into the bag. Superstition? Distrust of blue food?
Read moregod stopping time
“You ask, ‘How can he attend to me and everyone else?’ That’s easy. God can stop Time. Time is has nothin’ on God. It was just an idea he threw in here to make life interesting. Time. So, take that out of the equation and anything’s possible. There isn’t any friggin’ cause and effect unlessen…
Read moreSevi invented a food called “Cracky Go-nuts” which are “cracky on the outside, like a shell, and gooey on the inside like chocolate”
Read morea little more bleeding last night. Seems that by evening, whenever she’s not resting, the blood comes.
Read morea little more bleeding before her nap at 1:30pm today
Read morea little bleeding again last night before bedtime ~10:30
Read moreDriving down to NYC from VT yesterday for her doctor’s appointment, Rebecca had bleeding in the car at Bennington. Came back. The bleeding continued, but stopped as of this morning. We still do not know if it was a miscarriage.
Read morethe sex couple
Striding through the Champlain Festival Grounds in bikini thong bathing suits, a man and woman in their early 60s, bulging in all the right places but over-ample and jiggly to the point where, proud feet pounding the grass and parading in unison, they relied on sag as a bold strategy of contrast to the bounce…
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