Tag: work

Open Your Eyes, Breathe

Still alive. Ah well, the odds were never in death’s favor. Today, I’ll document for absolutely no one, the events that transpired in the recovery room, moments after my waking from hernia surgery. The nurse was Filipino. Thank God for those Filipino ladies; if it weren’t for them, […]

Untangling Knots

   In my teen years, I spent considerable time pondering the nature of knots. How is it, I wondered, that I can wrap up something like a string of Christmas lights in a perfect loop, stash it in a bin, and somehow, without the slightest manipulation of human […]