Mark Phillips' Pages: Workbook: February 2020

Workbook: February, 2020

February 29, 2020: It's ironic that the Air America pilot's two little daughters both grew up to be junkies.
February 28, 2020: In some ways I'm the world's greatest boyfriend.
February 27, 2020: Mysteries of the Mystical: A True Story.
February 26, 2020: Johnny Verygray is extreeeeemly impatient with the checkout process.
February 25, 2020: For months I'd planned a winter vacation.
February 24, 2020: I grew up in an apartment without towels.
February 23, 2020: Within hours of moving in she set out to take away from me my favorite room...
February 22, 2020: I'm on the BART in Berkeley minding my own when street people offer me food and money.
February 21, 2020: There's a black light at the end of every tunnel.
February 20, 2020: Her mother the Evangelical Control Freak From Hell said once...
February 19, 2020: I told her, "You know who you are, right? You're Cinderella."
February 18, 2020: Where gender conditioned our respective evasions.
February 17, 2020: Very many years later it occurred to me that my secretiveness and my masks exactly reproduced my family's behaviors...
February 16, 2020: It was then I began the disassociation which would last three decades.
February 15, 2020: The window is cracked.
February 14, 2020: In his 2016 textbook Brevity, David Galef defines "vignette" this way:
February 13, 2020: The world is blue from space.
February 12, 2020: Bagpipes, mongoose, hand grenade: attributes of the well-prepared archaeologist.
February 11, 2020: But should you have it?
February 10, 2020: Death by drowning at the House at Pooh Corner.
February 9, 2020: She said, "You'll see me again."
February 8, 2020: She cried for her youth.
February 7, 2020: Hamburger, some sort of cream sauce, like salad dressing or tartar.
February 6, 2020: I'm trying so hard to understand the Bible.
February 5, 2020: Her hair had no color.
February 4, 2020: I like napping because it's something I can do in my sleep.
February 3, 2020: "Did you write anything else about me?"
February 2, 2020: Well, I got the shot.
February 1, 2020: I re-entered the gifted program suddenly without warning after learning toward the end of tenth grade that the kids were almost entirely unsupervised.