http://cahootszine.com Tue, 17 Mar 2009 04:30:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en At the pool, where I have found myself regularly after work, is a sign that enigmatically states, “Pool Capacity 541.” Every day for months, I have formulated the question, capacity for what? Is it 541 gallons of water, 541 people who can squeeze themselves into the pool, or 541 laps ... http://cahootszine.com/?p=136 X: I think we’re early. Y: I think we’re late. How do you know we’re early? X: I just have a feeling, you know? Just a feeling... why would you think we’re late? Have a little more hope than that, come on. Y: Are you kidding me? Because nobody else is here yet. ... http://cahootszine.com/?p=134 I am in a love and hate relationship with this city. New York gets beautiful sunsets that nobody sees or knows about. Residents ask themselves daily why they inhabit this burly brimming ship and find solace in watching the flickering tourists from Baton Rouge—who would have loved to dress, walk, ... http://cahootszine.com/?p=132 Here I am, turning in my office chair, in another 9x5x5 day, working for a good cause that amounts to a day spent in front of the computer. Being raised in plenty, my ambitions are not those of my parents. Everyday I seek a meaning to life. Being married takes ... http://cahootszine.com/?p=130 For a man who wasn’t crazy about hats, Arthur Arlan, or as I called him, Poppa Arthur, tended to wear a lot of them — as a father, grandfather, great-grandfather, friend, mentor, neighbor, chef, well...you get the idea. There’s far too many memories of Poppa to recall over the last two ... http://cahootszine.com/?p=128 Sometimes the chain-link fence keeping-in the ivy of your home, with bright posters on each wall has more to do with information, with the way faux-taut helices of metal and rust can be understood not in-themselves, but in-how-you-might-hope-to-use-them. Sometimes the leaves spiralled up the steel are more like tokens ways to pretty-up a balcony, your love ... http://cahootszine.com/?p=126 A couple months ago while at work, I received an email from my sister with a link to an article about “Monkids.” Intrigued by the title, I opened my browser to a fascinating story about empty nesters who deeply missed their children. As the obvious solution, they adopted monkeys, whom ... http://cahootszine.com/?p=123 how (much betterwetter) can i aim to want to please you picture perfect you. vines divine (you’re mineminemine) entwine my now armorless amour like never before with your lovelust. long live my lucklove ensnared in your hair and your nets and your nest and your neck, tickled like a child’s chuckles in its bashful beautiful wreck. never ever ever ever say you don’t feel the ... http://cahootszine.com/?p=120 Rajastan is the part of India that you see in coloring books.  It’s bright and broadly drawn, immediate and jubilant.  It’s where florid jungle forests cradle castles built above baby blue lakes and men who are mostly mustached dance on endless, fluffy blankets of crème colored desert.  It’s the India ... http://cahootszine.com/?p=117 I met Nelly Leano in the copy room at St. Mary’s Catholic Church. She was wearing a matching blue outfit and making lots of copies with the help of Noemi, the Chilean receptionist and general go-to woman. I was making one copy, and eavesdropping, trying to follow their rapid Spanish. “Noemi ... http://cahootszine.com/?p=115