Monthly Archives: May 2011

Somehow, I’ve gotten here again: leaning across a table in a basement bar to hear him, pulling my hair into a ponytail, drinking my beer, letting my hair out, pulling it up. I cannot sit still. I’m running this spring, which is what I always do at times like these, grateful for the uphill under [...]

The evening run from my house, around the inner-city lake. It’s the kind of city where one shouldn’t run after dark. It’s been windy all month, and tonight the wind is pushing the water around the lake, the leaves are already flipped silver side up, the big flat clouds reddish black. I’m alone on my [...]