Rag and Bone Shop

Posts from January 2008

Adieu, Adieu 2007

Two thousand and seven was the year of car accidents, plantar warts, empty oil tanks, overbearing bosses, and late nights at my desk, which is really the kitchen table, which is falling apart. Also falling apart in 2007: the furnace, the window panes, the toilet, the hot water tank, the dryer, the cold water [...]


Good Bad Blurb

Last weekend I reorganized my bookcases, partly because there’s been a steady accumulation of dust since the last time I cleaned it, over a year ago, and partly because we were going to have guests over that evening and I wanted the books to look good. Yes, I am vain. So I emptied [...]


Enamour’d of an Ass

Maddie and I are somewhere in Act III of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and I’ve been braying around the living room for ten minutes or so while she tosses wreaths and necklaces at me. In the middle of the room a simple makeshift bower forms, and Mason tucks himself under my arm and tries [...]