Respit

Bean’s bare feet fwap across the living room floor, zig zagging at random, humming a little tune as he goes. Outside the birds call and the sun has broken through the cloud cover, spilling light across the pine trees and wild grasses growing at the edge of the lawn. Bean and I are in New […]

Up, up, and away

Up to our necks in rain, that is. I cannot quite find the words to describe what 21 days of rain does to a person’s psyche. Gag. Nor can I really describe how it exacerbates the misery of these final days of projects—washing out mortar buckets in the rain, carrying boxes in the rain, everything […]

Endgame

You know that song? How it goes and goes and goes and you’re only half listening and you think over and over again that it’s going to end? That’s how the past week has been. It has been a week, that, in the bigger picture of things is only a small collection of minutes. Yet […]