Mark Phillips' Pages: Workbook: May 2023

Workbook: May, 2023

May 31, 2023: Solipsism: all my fault.
May 30, 2023: It's a long commute.
May 29, 2023: He has family and professional obligations.
May 28, 2023: Respected old friend.
May 27, 2023: Book club in the beer garden.
May 26, 2023: I wish I could live without sleep.
May 25, 2023: I am trying so hard to understand the Gospels.
May 24, 2023: The lazy, incompetent HR Director is let go this week.
May 23, 2023: Corporate jets at Gillespie, and ain't that a change.
May 22, 2023: Greybeard with bike.
May 21, 2023: "You have a decent amount of insulin."
May 20, 2023: "Twenty minutes! Uggggh!"
May 19, 2023: Tweaker in backward cap, staring.
May 18, 2023: Old whitebeard in yellow traffic vest...
May 17, 2023: Twitchy in the side seat.
May 16, 2023: To be "home"...
May 15, 2023: If the Cambridge Companions had existed 20 years earlier they'd have transformed my education.
May 14, 2023: Pronto app for the trolley.
May 13, 2023: So he bursts into tears to be "home"...
May 12, 2023: At the exact instant the odometer on my 2006 Forester turned to 300,000...
May 11, 2023: Immediately after watching an interesting short WaPo video on UFOs...
May 10, 2023: The best way to be helpful is to draw clear lines of differentiation.
May 9, 2023: Corpses of burned oaks.
May 8, 2023: Toxic nostalgia.
May 7, 2023: I don't know how to put this nostalgia behind.
May 6, 2023: Those restaurants now are gone.
May 5, 2023: Esoterica
May 4, 2023: Narcolepsy.
May 3, 2023: Later — summers home from school — restaurants became points of contact.
May 2, 2023: At dinner with her I'd pick, nibble, and leave as soon as possible.
May 1, 2023: He left her on the side of the road, like a rotting couch.