I’m still getting used to this new last name. It’s bulky, only a letter longer than maiden Ritschard, but so many more syllables. Can-na-ri-a-to. My signature is sloppy, spilling over the lines with the bulk of all these new vowels. “You’re just finishing writing that name by the time the test is done,” he jokes.Continue reading “styrofoam lipton and married names”
Monthly Archives: October 2012
three brothers and the dark
I wake in the dark. The alarm has been screeching, screaming in the start of a new day, but my body’s sun-cycled melatonin sings sleep. Pitch outside, blackest black – the sun not even sending finger-feelers over the horizon yet. It can’t be, yet. Can’t be time to start another of these whirlwind days thatContinue reading “three brothers and the dark”
the Overlap 