February 2012
102 posts
I wish other people’s joy over getting jobs and getting into grad school could not be on my newsfeed on days when I receive rejection e-mails.
August 26, 2006
When I was two, my parents had the radiators replaced and the old ones left holes in the floor. I dropped Burt down the hole just to see what would happen. He never came back. Now Burt is buried somewhere inside the basement wall. We joke about it and say that someday, when our house is ancient and they’re excavating it, the archaeologists will find it and think that it is some sort of...
I am interviewing for a fellowship with Project Horseshoe Farm today. Nervous and excited and unsure of whether I want it or not. Alabama is a long way from Vermont.
June 19, 2007
The other day, I went for a long walk in the woods where Jeremy and I used to go to be alone. We’d lie naked in this clearing, holding hands and talking. He had started carving our names into a tree there. He never finished. It just says SA + JB in a half finished heart. It was supposed to say forever. How fitting. I remember him asking me if I was okay with him putting forever. I just...
I want to be in the ocean.
