I was a disappointment to my parents. They never said so, but sometimes walking into a room, where I heard a whispering conversation seconds before and then an embarrassed silence after I walked in was clue enough. My mother was always the first to recover. “There you are, dear; your …
Then the clock on her office wall stopped at 3:15 PM every day. She replaced it and that clock stopped every day at 3:15… every day. She took the clock down and didn’t put up another. Every day she noticed the clock at 3:15 PM. No matter where she was or what she was doing. There were days when she didn’t think of him at all until 3:15 PM.
Missy, I remember the Girl Scout Uniforms and the struggles through school and today I read of your death; that seems years ago too.
“Roger Caprice. Yeah, that’s a pen name – caprice, thought it would be fun.” Her blank stare made me worry; The resume was concise and well written, perhaps the references were a little vague, but time didn’t allow several hours in conversation about a temporary editor.
At any rate, I’m just a regular guy who finished high school and then finished college in all of four years and started a job in the city and thought about getting married twice. I let those two ideas slip right by and now I have the odd and end girlfriend divorcee. I know it sounds like I’m a bit of a user and maybe I am.
After my wife left me I felt a terrible loss because she took the dog and the cat with her. She left angry.
The art of silence? Do not hide, for when you are among siblings, out of sight does not mean out of mind, especially when an order is easily delegated. Prepare to be busy, not look busy. This is essential to survival.
“You’re welcome inside.”
Once a playground assistant came to him and asked what he was doing. “Looking for a four-leaf clover for the girl who won’t tell me her name.”
the other bartender said he died right there in the middle of the floor, after sliding off his bar stool, sorta kickin’ and turnin’ purple. I figured Dad would die pissed off.
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