firewings posted an article on Indecisive Peach - Nov 2, 2009, 10:19 pm
It seems that there is a mythic type of parent-child relation, the time when the child realizes that the parent is very much human and fallible. That it can be a bit of a disappointment in what you...
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firewings posted an article on Indecisive Peach - Nov 1, 2009, 7:12 pm
For me, it never fails that the reflection of a past year tends to be a matter of thinking about how random life actually can be and that the best laid plans really can be even better than what you th...
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firewings posted an article on Indecisive Peach - Sep 28, 2009, 10:21 pm
Her face lifted and brightened as I approached the counter and I gave my best wary smile. “I’d, um, like the – “ “WOW. It has been a long time.” I focused on the...
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firewings posted an article on Indecisive Peach - Aug 20, 2009, 11:28 pm
“This is going to go into your blog again, isn’t it?” he said as we stepped out of the apartment and I nodded vigorously with a large smile. “Of course it is! Dialogue is one of my favorite ...
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firewings posted an article on Indecisive Peach - Aug 19, 2009, 1:51 pm
“It’s like being permanently tied to another person with a 20′ long rope. You can use the rope to rescue each other from dangerous situations or you can use it to strangle each other...
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firewings posted an article on Indecisive Peach - Aug 8, 2009, 12:42 pm
“I’m going to be really sad if you start writing all of your posts in Spanish.” “Did you see the paragraphs between the Spanish ones?” “…I did,” my Mo...
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firewings posted an article on Indecisive Peach - Aug 5, 2009, 9:54 am
33. Write a post in a language you don’t speak.* Yo no soy el mayor fan de la comida mexicana, en teoría, pero he adquirido el gusto por algunas de las opciones de tonto. Como de tarde, he estado ...
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firewings posted an article on Indecisive Peach - Jul 13, 2009, 9:19 pm
I have an early memory of being with my grandparents as they were picking up their potato crop. I must have been about three or four as my grandma held out wriggling snails in her brown, dirt-caked ha...
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firewings posted an article on Indecisive Peach - Jul 9, 2009, 12:45 pm
After five years of archival experience, I was in a room with the development officer and the man from the company who was persona non grata. Only last week did it slip in the last meeting before the ...
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firewings posted an article on Indecisive Peach - Jul 8, 2009, 10:21 pm
He swung the door open like a gentleman, leaving room for me to slide in front of his body into the restaurant. As I walked in, all action stopped for a split second. The two older weathered men looke...
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firewings posted an article on Indecisive Peach - Jul 7, 2009, 11:56 pm
The texts between J and I went something like this: J: Hey guess what’s sitting at the muffler shop on our street? Me, spinning in my chair at work: Oh, a DeLorean? J: Oh damn, I didn’t...
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firewings posted an article on Indecisive Peach - Jul 6, 2009, 10:51 pm
Leu chansonetta e’vil by Guirault de Bornelh (1138-1215) A little song, swift and free, is what I should like to compose, which I’d then send to Dalfi in the Auvergne; and if, as it goe...
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firewings posted an article on Indecisive Peach - Jul 5, 2009, 9:59 pm
Thankfully, there were Coronas. I might have failed giving GS an authentic American fourth of July, because who has trout and wild rice for dinner on 4th of July? At least, it’s a healthy fai...
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