The Bag Had Other Plans
The paper grocery bag held on through self-checkout, through the walk to the bus stop, through the entire ride home, through the front door, and then, at the precise moment I set…
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The Warp Has Opinions
Third session of the rigid heddle weaving class and I think my wrists filed a formal complaint somewhere around the forty-minute mark. Not a complaint about pain, more the specifi…
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The Shed Is the Gap
First session of the rigid heddle weaving class was last Thursday and I have been sitting with how to write about it for five days, which is about four days longer than it deserve…
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The Disc Has a Name
The drop-in ceramics session was listed on the community center board as 'beginner-friendly, no experience necessary,' and I want to be clear that they meant that as reassurance,…
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Fitted Sheet Theory
There is a fitted sheet in this apartment that has never been folded correctly. Not once. Three years and I am convinced it is structural, something in the elastic, something in t…
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Both Casualties
Saturday afternoon and Simone brought the groceries in through the door already talking, which is how most of our kitchen sessions start, some fact she picked up mid-week that nee…
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What the Band Was Doing
Midnight. Not late-night-by-accident midnight but the scheduled kind, the kind you have to mean. Simone had texted a screenshot of the listing two weeks ago with no message attach…
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The Ice Harvest Thing
Started, I think, with fermentation. Or possibly brine. I was reading something about kimchi, something I'd half-remembered from a cooking thread, the kind of thing you skim at 10…
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The Cake Had an Opinion
Thirty-eight arrived on a Thursday, which felt right. Thursdays don't make promises. Simone picked the restaurant, somewhere on the east side with brick walls and the kind of ligh…
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Unknown Variety
Simone arrived with a small paper packet and placed it on the kitchen table the way you'd place a piece of evidence. 'I found these,' she said, which is a complete sentence if you…
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