Renovations, Conferences, and Birthdays

In the past few days we’ve made a pretty big decision about something we’ve been discussing – or you may say spatting over- for a fair while now. Home improvements, anything that involves wielding a paintbrush or involves some sort of destruction and the need for face masks, really is beyond our ken. Don’t get…

On Dreaming

As a young adult and weighing forty kilograms, my dreaming became weightier than my mass. I would wake up during these years and fill diaries recounting these dreams in minute detail, certain of their significance. Just as my eating disorder was a means of problem solving, roundaboutly (don’t deal with the issues troubling you, deal with…

You can take the man out of science class, but not the science out of the man

“I’m going to make friands today.” “Isn’t that a gas?” “FRIANDS. Not FREON.” “Oh.” Pause. “Disappointing.” I know he secretly wants to be this guy.