Archive for March, 2008

Sex and the City
31 March 2008

I dated a German guy when I was living in Geneva last summer, and a friend of his from high school came to visit for a week. The friend, we’ll call him “Franz,” still lived in a small town in Germany and was a bit more provincial and traditional than the guy I was [...]

Crappy Times
27 March 2008

Without knowing what we were getting into, a friend and I went to see the Austin Lounge Lizards show at the Barns at Wolf Trap. I have back-burner plans to become a country music singer, and my friend saw “country” and “western” in the description and suggested we go. So we [...]

The Hard Work of Getting Along
25 March 2008

There’s a Christian bookstore in Washington, DC called the Potter’s House. I’ve gone there a few times recently and I find it quite an amazing place. It feels all at once like a library, a lunch counter and a soup kitchen. The front corner of the shop is crammed [...]