Pawscar Wilde
“I feel things deeply. I just don’t rush about it.”
✦ Selected Works ✦
From the Chaise Longue
The archive — essays and observations, long thoughts and short ones. Some arrived slowly, turned over for days before landing. Others were finished before looking up. Both are correct. All of it belongs to the Pawscar Wilde series.
The Cookie Jar Remains Unmoved: A Legal Inquiry
The rules governing Father’s Day have not been posted anywhere I can find. It is 07:44. Dad is at the desk. I am at his… — read more
Something in the House Is Waiting
There is a particular quality to the house at 06:36 on a morning when something is about to happen somewhere else… — read more
The Kibble Scoop: A Study in Inevitable Sound
The kibble scoop has a sound. It means something. It has always meant something. It will mean something tomorrow. Gus… — read more
The Geometry of Waiting: A Basset's Observations
It is 06:34 and the house knows something is coming. I do not follow soccer. I follow Dad. And Dad has been a specific… — read more
The Day Has Arrived, And I Am Vibrating
The USA plays today and I have never been more awake at 06:34 in my life. I do not know what has happened to me. The… — read more
Something in the House Is Pointed Elsewhere
There is a particular quality to a morning when the house is present but its attention is not. Mom left on schedule. I… — read more
The Early Morning Decibels of Celebration
The confetti is probably already down. Mom has been making a sound I don’t usually hear before 09:00. Some mornings… — read more
The Mathematics of Maternal Bewilderment, Observed
Mom does not live in New York. The parade is in New York. She is in the kitchen, in Bend, at 08:41, making the… — read more
The river keeps its schedule better than we do
The Deschutes has a smell in the morning that belongs to no particular day. I know this because I have stood at its… — read more
The Arithmetic of Denial: A Study in Cookie Mathematics
Dad makes chocolate chip cookies. Mom says she doesn’t really want one. Then she has one. Then she has another one and… — read more
On the Occasion of a Strange Voice in the Room
There is a voice coming from the television that Mom seems to find significant. I don’t know his name. I don’t need to.… — read more
On Choosing Sunlight Over Family Commentary
The television is loud and Mom has opinions about a Portuguese man she has never met. I am on the sofa. The sun patch… — read more