by waiter | Apr 25, 2024 | Uncategorized
I’d just passed the two mile mark and, since my heart rate monitor told me I was still within acceptable limits, decided to run another lap or two around the park. “The minute something aches,” I told myself, “I’ll stop.” From what I’ve read, the key to running is to...
by waiter | Apr 22, 2024 | Uncategorized
“Did you see that Dune film yet?” I asked Carl, the kid who works in the office next to mine. “Just the first one,” he said. “Haven’t seen the second. You?” “Same here. I’m waiting for a friend of mine to go see it.” “He into sci-fi?” “Yeah,” I said,...
by waiter | Apr 21, 2024 | Uncategorized
I was in a coffee shop a few days ago when I overheard a teenage girl tell her mother, “I didn’t ask to be born.” From the look on their faces, I could tell progenitor and offspring were in the middle of some kind of kerfuffle. I didn’t know what dustup was...
by waiter | Apr 20, 2024 | Uncategorized
Grieving people sometimes find it therapeutic returning to work, finding solace in established routines and familiar faces while others need to avoid their job altogether. Everyone’s different, but I found myself comfortable with neither option. But since I work in...
by waiter | Apr 17, 2024 | Uncategorized
In an effort to keep my good cholesterol up, I started jogging a few months ago. It’s slow going and sucks but, after getting up to three miles straight on my gym’s treadmills, I decided to put on my big boy shorts and start running outside. I wish someone had told me...
by waiter | Apr 12, 2024 | Uncategorized
When I left work today, I ran into my boss in the hallway. “Leaving early?” he said. “I have to go grave shopping today,” I said, putting on what I thought was an appropriately solemn look. “Find a place for my father’s ashes. Volunteers are...
by waiter | Mar 31, 2024 | Uncategorized
My mom fell ill with stomach flu the day of my dad’s wake and couldn’t go. That was hard on all of us, but especially for her. I resisted well-meaning calls to convince her otherwise because, as I told my family, “I don’t want to have to do this again anytime soon.”...
by waiter | Mar 15, 2024 | Uncategorized
A couple of hours after my father died, I was sitting in the back office of a funeral home waiting for the director to arrive when I heard a car pull up and the sound of a heavy door opening and closing. Getting up from my seat, I went to the window and pulled back...
by waiter | Mar 7, 2024 | Uncategorized
March 7, 2024 When my brother and I were children in the 1970’s my father loved to play records on the old hi-fi in our living room. His choices were, of course, as varied as his eclectic tastes– ranging from classical music, recordings of Shakespeare plays,...
by waiter | Mar 6, 2024 | Uncategorized
March 6, 2024 When I was a small child the synapses in my brain finally linked up and I realized that I had a whole life in front of me – and that I’d eventually need to get a job. So, I churned through all the possibilities little boys consider. Maybe I would become...
