Over the past few days I’ve found myself, on frequent occasion, wondering about the people I used to know in college, the people I used to call close friends, classmates, running buddies. Remembering hanging out, eating dinner, running around Arkadelphia and downtown Hot Springs, talking on the phone, riding bikes around town, etc., and so …
Author Archives: Shawn
Haplessly Travelled, Unhappily Tired
Day 0 The trip home to Texarkana started later than expected; I couldn’t leave town until 9pm. Something about packing up, getting showered, taking care of my car, things like that. I load up, gas up, hook up my laptop to my car stereo as an MP3 jukebox, and I hit the road, still tired …
Beware the Easter Goldfish, Children
To the good people of Texarkana: I will be making a two-day holiday visit this weekend in celebration of Easter, to be spent with family and friends. (Wait, I’m celebrating Easter? But I’m an atheist! Hmm.) “Mummy, I woke up today and there was a lincoln log in me sock drawer!” “That’s the story of …
A Better Future, a More Fragrant Past
Currently, I’m sitting with a full belly and a warm cup of coffee, laptop in my lap. I’m offline. Sitting with my back to the hill behind me, face to the small crowd here at this otherworldly coffee shop near Zilker Park. It’s a different crowd here. Different kind of people than I usually see …
Twenty-Nine, and You Know I’m Lyin’
On Thursday, March 25th, 2004, I turned the ripe old age of 32 29. Yep. Uh-huh. My roomate asked me earlier this week what I wanted to do on my birthday, and I made mention that I’d like to do that bowling outing we had planned a few weeks ago; thought it’d be fun. And …