Sunscreen
Sunscreen is painless, quick to apply, and effective, and yet it almost always becomes the enemy of the summer’s day. Continue reading Sunscreen
Tag: adoption
Mask
Like the Coronavirus itself, the mask has spread. Once particular, it turned ubiquitous, though not without friction. Continue reading Mask
Coaster
Once a year, the local community enveloping my college campus held a town-wide garage sale day. Continue reading Coaster
Bookshelf
This one room stores more wisdom than my mind can retain. And most of what I am able to read in my short life, I will forget. Continue reading Bookshelf
Glasses
Lenses look like flattened ice cubes, melted enough to be translucent. Cold and dull, they seem impersonal. But the task they perform makes them a vital part of our humanity. Continue reading Glasses
Rain
Controlling rain would be a great thing for humanity. You don’t have to look far in our culture to see the damage rain has done to us in the past, and the ways we are trying to cope with it now. Continue reading Rain
Watch
Watches can be statements of decadence and pragmatism, athleticism and intelligence, masculinity and femininity. These wearable messengers of time are often the most expensive and most constant outward representation of our inner self. Continue reading Watch
Coronavirus
I write this on the morning of April 7, 2020. Your mother and I have been taking refuge at home, leaving only when absolutely necessary, for twenty-one days. Continue reading Coronavirus
Keys
Keys’ primary function is to get us inside something that belongs to us. This is evident by the name we call individual keys—car keys, house keys. Continue reading Keys
House
Houses are always an infusion of inanimate and animate things, that is to say an inseparable mixture of nonliving objects and living beings. Continue reading House
