1. Older gentleman, whom I know from events he attends at the store, asks me "Are you married?" as I ring up his book. "No, I am not," I say. "Well, I've decided it's time you got married and settled down," he says. "No, I'm not in a hurry. I do pretty well on my own," I say. "I don't know," he says, and heads toward the door. "You work a lot, don't you," he says. "I work full time. I love my job," I say. He shakes his head and picks up one of our books, says the rape scene was almost overdone.
2. A newborn baby in your arms is like nothing else you ever will hold. Tender head, softest, and compact wiggly body that pushes into you, out of his body. The instinct is to curl him up inside you, fold around him and sleep.
3. After eight years of loving, you discover the illusive musician you have dreamed of seeing live will be in Nashville in two months, just six hours away. You try to buy tickets without evening looking at the calendar. When you realize tickets don't go on sale for another two days, you put the on-sale time in your calendar and set reminders. This will be the day you experience him, at last.
4. I watched a TED talk the other day. I can't remember who did it or what it was called, but here was the formula for connectedness, happiness: 8 hugs a day. When you're single, how is that even possible?
5. Last week I slept outside in the rain, under a tarp, under a structure I had built, on the ground covered in pine needles, with Steve Snell in a tent 20 feet away, on my left side, in a raincoat, in my shoes, on a tree farm, with two ticks in the morning, but I don't remember sleeping.
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