Soppho

Y Chromosome picked these for me last night from his family’s farm. I just love daffodils, and there is nothing better than fresh-picked, homegrown flowers, even when they arrive in a Wahoo-orange-hued “vase” right out of your boyfriend’s bedroom. Especially when later you find a flashlight in his pocket, because he was out in the [...]

(Thanks to Y Chrome for adding scale and a little ginger-headed human interest.)
Meet Mt. Chipotle, Charlottesville’s greatest current obsession. If this looks like a giant pile of sand and dirt and grime with a little bit of snow mixed in, sitting in the middle of a shopping plaza’s parking lot, let me explain. This is [...]

The first time I heard this song, the radio was playing in the living room while I was on my belly in my bedroom, cleaning out boxes and clearing away the dust bunnies under my bed. Not 15 seconds after the song started, I scuttled backward from underneath the bed like a cockroach, and crawled [...]

Their mugs sit at a perfect diagonal on opposite sides of the tiny coffee shop table. He stares deep into the screen of his laptop as he scrolls up and down the page of a news site. She gazes at a gallery of celebrity photos at the same news site, tapping “Next” almost as soon [...]