But Trevor has been taking Roo with him to work, and this means that my excuse for a mid-day walk and an after-work walk is gone. And yes, I know that I can still walk around my neighborhood, but it’s easier to sit on the couch and not do that. But it really helps: to cle...
I didn’t know what heartbreak was. I thought I did, but what I had known up until him were bruises to my ego, nowhere near my heart. Two years later, for my 21st birthday, he gave me an antique Corona typewriter from 1928. The keys were yellowed, rust on the company’s emblem....
I synthesize our cumbersome relationship with an easy shorthand: my mother never said "I love you". 对于我和妈妈之间的这种微妙关系,我总是简单地用一句“谁让她从来不说‘我爱你’”来总结。 The last time my mother almost spoke the words was two years ago, when she called to tell me that ...
I noticed something new in the kitchen. Not on her quotation wall, but across the room, fixed to an antique magnetic board: Robert Hershon's poem, printed on a scrap of white paper in the old-fashioned font of a typewriter. The board hung above the radiator, where we drape wet rags ...
The free event features approximately 100 crafts exhibitor booths, a variety of food vendors, amusement rides, jugglers, clowns, an antique car display and children’s fun zone featuring a variety of moon bounces, a climbing wall, a zip line, a giant slide, and a trampoline. ...
So now I was in a PhD program in computer science, yet planning to be an artist, yet also genuinely in love with Lisp hacking and working away atOn Lisp. In other words, like many a grad student, I was working energetically on multiple projects that were not my thesis. ...
Even before the typewriter, way back when printing presses were first used, fonts were created to resemble old, gothic manuscripts, which most of us now struggle to read. With the introduction of movable type to Europe in the 15th century, businesses sprang up to supply all those cast-metal...
antique examples from at least the 1500s suggest that the desk was widely used at that time, and possibly before. Modern offices tend to use a differently styled desk design with more room to spread out and slightly less private storage, but many people keep a secretary desk at home to ...
t schlep the typewriter with me everywhere and I certainly don’t want to be “that guy” who whips out an antique at a Starbucks to get his writing done. Instead, I carry the large Moleskine with me and write the draft in longhand. All my first drafts are written in an analog ...
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