by Jan Bear | Oct 8, 2004 | Uncategorized
She comes to the library table, huge in her green coat and overfilled leggings, wheezing like a fireplace bellows, and looks at me uncertainly. I’ve allowed the book I was looking at to wander outside my territory on the table. I move the book and tell her that...
by Jan Bear | Oct 6, 2004 | Uncategorized
He(?) got on the bus downtown, and he wore a uniform for [Acme] Transport with various Kerry-Edwards campaign buttons. His hair was cut in reverse mullet–short around the back and sides but the top pulled into a ponytail that hung down to the nape of his neck....
by Jan Bear | Oct 5, 2004 | Uncategorized
When we were in Louisiana, my daughter said she’d couldn’t understand why anyone would live in Florida because of the hurricanes. I said they could be bad, though not usually this bad, but ecverywhere you go has its own share of disasters. When we got...
by Jan Bear | Oct 1, 2004 | Uncategorized
Today I rode the bus to work for the first time in years. Before the girls arrived, I worked downtown and couldn’t afford the parking. I loved the bus, despite its occasional inconveniences, like being caught seemingly for hours in sweltering heat with windows...
by Jan Bear | Sep 30, 2004 | Uncategorized
Paranoid conspiracy theories are more prevalent than ever in culture and politics–vast right-wing conspiracies and left-wing fever swamps, billionaires with plans to “RULE THE WORLD” and chillingly suspicious corporations. Only the initiated few know...