William Alba s blog
While swimming laps the day before yesterday outside at Highland Park, I didn t notice anything particular about the air I was gulping. Likewise, when I drove back to the Vintage Center to hang out with Dad, there may have been something about the air in retrospect but I didn t note it at the time. But [ ] The post fires and containment first appeared on 4lba .
I m sitting in the Subaru dealership in Monroeville, waiting for Jade to get an inspection sticker, oil change, and usual annual checkup. The television in the waiting room is on HGTV (Home Garden Television), no doubt selected as an innocuous channel. After all, everyone has a different idea of which genres are entertaining, financial [ ] The post the word drips as poison first appeared on 4lba .
On Friday after dropping off MM at a medical appointment, I asked S where he wanted to go after La Bonita supermarket — to walk along the Las Vegas Strip, to visit the Atomic Museum, or to go to the library. Being our child, he immediately rejected the Strip. We ended up at the museum, [ ] The post words are as a honeycomb first appeared on 4lba .
Today I awoke with a start, in utter darkness. Is it after noon? Did I miss the meeting with my scavenger hunt teammates? I reach for my phone — 09:10. Nine in the evening? No, I use ISO 8601 time. But it s not really nine in the morning, not yet, not here where we are, [ ] The post purgatory first appeared on 4lba .
Who among us has not been isolated, judged entirely for our appearance, the color of our skin? And not just in the places where one might expect, it can happen anywhere. I grew up in a conservative small town in Ohio, where some peers called me an orc or a nigger, but I ve also encountered [ ] The post among us first appeared on 4lba .
Today I learned Macalester College is supporting their international students to stay in the United States this summer, in order to mitigate their fears that they would not be able to re-enter and continue their studies if they go home between terms. Both the college and the surrounding community have pooled resources to take care [ ] The post a tale of two campuses first appeared on 4lba .
I had a dream last night that I told you to give the bones of my wrists and fingers to the dogs after I died. We were in a car, a dark car of the sort you might see driven by a Driver in The Handmaid s Tale. i had decided it was time, so we [ ] The post todavía no somos Gilead first appeared on 4lba .
When we drove to and from Reno this past week, we didn t take the quickest route. Marissa had done this road trip twice before and preferred skirting the Sierras instead of going exclusively through Nevada. In fact, during our travels she remarked several times how you could tell we were in California because it was [ ] The post where life wants to be first appeared on 4lba .
For no good reason, I fell asleep on the couch last night. I woke, not to this sound of the garbage truck in the alley, but from the dappled light of the sun. At this time, in this season, it fell across my eyes. The light entered my eyes, after traversing the frosted pane with [ ] The post lines for lenses first appeared on 4lba .
This morning I completed the Duolingo tree for Spanish. I had expected to receive some colorful animation, musical fanfare, or at least a badge to note the occasion. Instead a new section called Daily Refresh simply revealed itself. It s fine, just as with pilgrimages and birthdays, it s less about recognition, more about the journey. But [ ] The post and then first appeared on 4lba .