The reason I didn’t want to take both dogs AND the Snapper at the same time was because of some vague, imagined something that might “happen” that I wouldn’t be able to handle with all three. But then I realized that that something would be just as unmanageable with just one dog and the Snapper. [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Sster wises up; flood laundry
Posted in All Wet, The Hounds on June 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Growing Pains
Posted in The Hounds on June 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Or are they adjustment pains?
At any rate, the dogs are home from their spa vacation in America’s dairyland (where they were cared for by my brother and his wife for the past week and a half) and the crazy new schedule begins. I wasn’t going to let on that Attic Man is interning out of [...]
Abandoner’s Guilt
Posted in All Wet on June 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’m surprised to be dealing so well with what’s happened to us over the past two weeks, but there’ s one thing I can’t seem to shake. The first time we returned to CR as a family to see our house the city was a wreck. After trying in vain to get a glimpse of [...]
Lists
Posted in All Wet on June 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Attic Man saved the following plus more that I’m not thinking of:
Portable dishwasher with two plates, two pasta dishes, a few pieces of silverware, two of the Snapper’s plates, and a condiment cup; vacuum cleaner; microwave; toaster oven; Benjamin’s The Arcades Project; Said’s The World, the Text, and the Critic; Joyce’s Ulysses; collected poems of [...]
‘Tis a gift to be simple, ’tis a gift to be free
Posted in Uncategorized on June 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I kept waiting for it to happen today: to see some item sopping wet and caked with mud and to finally burst into tears. But you know what? All this talk about things just being things and the focus being on life is not just on the surface. I believe those things, and I live [...]
Home.
Posted in Uncategorized on June 20, 2008 | 5 Comments »
We signed the lease for Apt. #1 today. We were handed the keys and can move in immediately. Such a relief.
Miracle of miracles: the second floor, though the water came up to the roof, was untouched on the inside. We will be able to salvage our bed, computer, baby clothes, appliances, etc. The stuff on [...]
All I want is a room somewhere, far away from the cold night air…
Posted in All Wet on June 19, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Well, maybe a few rooms so that we don’t have to eat and sleep in the same space. And maybe a bed that’s not inflatable.
I looked at apartments in IC today and we have two possibilities. Apt #1 is a basement duplex, 2 bdrms, small yard but no fence, a block and a [...]
Posted in All Wet on June 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’m anxiously awaiting the barricaded area to open so I can see my house–and it will probably be the last area in the city to open (you know that famous picture of the railroad bridge with the houses smashed up against it? That’s yards from our house)–and to hear from our current landlady about [...]
Identifying the Body
Posted in All Wet on June 17, 2008 | 9 Comments »
On our way to Cedar Rapids tonight I told my dad on the phone that because I never got to come home from my trip, and by that I mean the house I will never live in again, there is this missing piece to my story that I need to complete it. I need to [...]
Ethical Mourning
Posted in Uncategorized on June 15, 2008 | 7 Comments »
is not to say, “I don’t deserve this.” It’s to acknowledge that many people live in one-room second-floor studio apartments with roaches and no laundry with a toddler who must sleep in the kitchen on a regular basis, and that I am not different because I am living that way only temporary.
You’re only a flood [...]
