Things have normalized. Nothing extraordinary in the news besides the usual extraordinary violence and ordinary scandal. Your allergies are acting up in the wake of all this heat. The plants are happy. The

She really did it to you this time. You're tangled in damp sheets, feet touching, barely able to move. Between the sun and the temperature of this room and the way she kissed

After a long and dream-filled winter, the hoary marmot emerges from its deep burrow having burned away, in sleep, whatever fat reserves he had accumulated last summer. It's a new dawn, now, finally

The next two days will be like sisters, both pretty enough, sure, but always aware that other people saw one as an obvious improvement on the other. Today, the older sister, was never

Ah, you said, opening the shade on this almost-blue-skied morning after what's seemed like weeks of endless dreariness, this is more like it. But alas, by noon things should cloud pretty well over