by Jan Bear | Apr 7, 2005 | Uncategorized
The girl sitting across from me on the bus doesn’t remember me, but she was on my daughter’s third-grade soccer team eight years ago. She was a beautiful child, with a mass of thick, wavy, blonde hair, which she wore in a long braid. Her mother had a...
by Jan Bear | Apr 6, 2005 | Uncategorized
Outer Life has captured what I’m trying to get from court reporting school He calls it superfluidity: (as good a name as any): Not to be confused with superfluity, a very different goal, superfluidity is an unusual state of matter characterized by a frictionless...
by Jan Bear | Apr 5, 2005 | Uncategorized
It was a crazy morning. Young-adult daughter’s car is in the shop, and we’re sharing a vehicle. I dropped her off at school, ran across town for an interview for the day job, went back to pick her up at school and leave her the car for the rest of her...
by Jan Bear | Apr 4, 2005 | Uncategorized
Your womb became more spacious than the heavens . . . . She had been through a rough time, partly of her own making, and she had come home — to the place where “if you have to go there, they have to take you in.” We took her to the emergency room to...
by Jan Bear | Mar 28, 2005 | Uncategorized
This map shows generic names for carbonated drinks. Besides being a lovely mosaic of the USA, it tells a story of migration and influence, as well as pockets of disconformity. Why is St. Louis “soda” country at the juncture of “coke” and...