Prelude And then all eyes fell on me. “A joke or an embarrassing story about yourself,” was the rule. An embarrassing story, fine, but you know as well as I that the unwritten expectation there was that it be an entertaining embarrassing story. My embarrassments are many, but their entertainment value is nil. So it […]
Monthly Archives: July 2012
Not Too Big to Leave
Sun, 15 Jul 2012, 09:11 PM (-06:00)
No Personal Banker For You “I’d like to close my account,” I told the teller. She told me I should sit down and wait for a personal banker. I sat down at waited. Across the vast, empty expanse of the bank, a couple personal bankers were busy helping other customers. And when it got to […]
Morning/Evening After The Rains
Wed, 11 Jul 2012, 09:20 PM (-06:00)
1. Morning On the way to work, I stopped to sit beside the pool. To watch the fish slowly circle and blow bubbles on the still surface of the water. I stopped to contemplate the Lily Pads. The white blossoms. The peach-colored blossoms. I set my laptop case on the table. And my cucumber snack […]