Christmas was spent in West Virginia, a state that’s actually quite lovely, a state with fewer gun shops and cars in front yards than I remember. We stayed at a spa, a destination equal parts Dirty Dancing and the Shining. Cottages dot the perimeter of the greater campus, which looks like a tiny college, if [...]
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Snapshot
02.27.07 –
Do you still have all your photo albums? I do. I’m a virtual photography freak, although most of my photos were taken with plastic sale-priced cameras that leave many a photographer friend without words.
Photographs catalog my existence. They chronicle a life spent for a good time in braces, in younger years on my legs and [...]
Revelations
02.23.07 –
Mom wears pantyhose to the Safeway. This may not mean a lot to you, as many mothers may don expensive socks that invariably rip while they maneuver 30-pound jagged-edged metal vehicles around a grocery store, but it’s telling. I have never seen my mother in jeans, not once – not ever – in [...]