The Wormlips Scrapbook

Okay, this is really weird. As soon as I left for college back in nineteen-aught-seventy-two, my mother started sending clippings: first, newspaper articles about acquaintances’ weddings. Then the jobs, honors and children of these same people. Now, of course, the deaths have started rolling in, mostly of adults important to me when I was young, [...]

Shirley asked me to write a note to Christopher. I did, and slid it into the sock that I gave Shirley. She put them atop his diminutive white casket at the funeral. Dear Christopher, I tried to make you a pair of socks but they came out funky. Here’s one of them. I threw out [...]

Lulu put some pictures up on her photo blog today. She and her roommate (G, from Whittier) are impressive in how carefully they planned what to bring, and in how efficiently they organized everything into that very small room. She and G brought the exact same Harry Potter poster, so there’s a mirror effect on [...]