September 22, 2009

chicago ink

You know that high you get at the top of a waterslide? After you’ve been inching up a massive flight of stairs one shuffling, damp step at a time? When you hear the water rushing and the lingering echo of happy screams and you can’t take your eyes off the little stoplight that tells [...]

September 21, 2009

gray matter

I’ve been sitting on this post all afternoon.

I started reading comic books when I was in seventh grade. I wish I could remember who put the first one in my hand. I have a feeling I picked one up out of boredom while waiting for my mom to finish grocery shopping.

I fell [...]

September 18, 2009

fortunate

When my son came home from school, he sat down with some “homework” on the floor.

“This is the letter C,” he told me happily. He held a big red crayon and tried to follow a sloping curved guide on the paper. When the crayon wavered and the line skewed sharply to the right, [...]