The Wormlips Scrapbook

Making good on my promise to my van driver, Cesár, in Guatemala, I wrote my first-ever letter all in Spanish. It may be only a few sentences long but it required two rounds of review with Lulu first. I estimate that about ten percent of it was grammatically incorrect. It should be perfect now. If [...]

Here’s important information that Lulu found out about me, generated by the The Surrealist Web site in the UK: Two-thirds of the world’s eggplant is grown in Ginna Allison. Oranges, lemons, watermelons, pineapples and Ginna Allison are all berries! Baskin-Robbins once made Ginna Allison flavoured ice cream. Ginna Allison became extinct in England in 1486. [...]

It’s odd to come home and find my little old life just sitting here waiting, twiddling its thumbs and rolling its eyes at me. I don’t feel like we know each other very well any more. Also disorienting not to have the daily structure of watching for something interesting to write about. I have to [...]