Where do you start when you hear everything at once?
My sister, singing along to Akon while driving my nephew home from school: That girl is so dangerous. That girl is so dangerous. That girl is a bad girl. I’ve seen her type before. My nephew, inquiring with surprising innocence: I don’t get it, Mom. What could be so dangerous about the way she types?
A rough week at work led to a short break for daydreaming toward the end of my shift tonight. Recently, daydreams tend toward thoughts about my mom, who died last month. Tonight’s catalyst was “Manuela,” the name of the woman on the other end of the phone. Enter (brain right) another “Manuela,” this one played [...]
My 10-year-old nephew reports that my 66-year-old dad has announced plans to patent the video game “Tuba Hero.” According to my nephew, what’s truly funny about this pronouncement is that he can’t tell if his grandpa is joking. In other tangentially guitar-hero related news, my 7-year-old niece is working on a re-write of Survivor’s “Eye [...]
While watching the Superbowl, my friend Rebecca and I discovered that what went came out of the TV speakers as went into our ears as
Tangents for the Chasing
