If you stopped by the West Side Diner last year for an early morning breakfast, you might have seen her talking to her son about skipping school. “He did it once, and I told him once was going to be the only time. I nip things in the bud when I see them. We don’t […]
If you were with me on my birthday a year ago, you’d know that I spent an hour of it at Greenline Apothecary in Providence. Of course, you wouldn’t know this, because I was there alone. It was my first time there, and I wanted the experience of sitting in a vintage setting, drinking a […]
“I just can’t see myself leaving like this.” She was supposed to have left weeks ago. Months, actually. June 8 was her last scheduled day in Providence. “We’re at June 8. Okay. June 8. It’s here. And I can’t go. I’m like–What? What is happening? Why can’t I go? I love it here. I have […]
If you passed by a house near Charles Street at around eleven o’clock at night on Saturday, you would have seen a light on. “We hadn’t seen each other in 10 or 15 years. It’s been that long.” The two of them were sitting at a small table next to the window eating pizza from […]
If you had asked her four years ago if she’d still be hooking up with a Republican, she would have told you there was no chance of that happening. “There was this confidence I had that once I got my life together, there were things I would change, and that was going to be one […]
“We put the screen up in the driveway and I’ll tell you the truth: I didn’t feel like taking it down. That’s all it was. I never thought much about it to tell you the truth.” If you drive to a certain neighborhood in Providence, you’ll see a house with a garage that has a […]
“I drove down and I got her, because I’m watching the news and I see all these cases going up, and it’s getting me nervous. I call my daughter and tell her I want to get her up here, and she tells me, ‘Yeah, Mom, I’m nervous too, but I can’t take off work. I’ll […]
“Where I grew up, we just left the doors open all the time, so I’m used to it.” Her wife gets mad at her. This isn’t the small town in the Midwest where she was raised, and even if it was, they have a little girl now. “That’s when I had to find a place […]
He almost had them one night. “I was two houses away in either direction, and then they stopped. It’s like they knew I was coming.” This is his first summer without his wife. She passed away last year right around Labor Day, and the two of them always enjoyed summers together. They’d be at the […]
She left Providence after graduating, having seen nothing of the city. “I really didn’t. Now I see that. I didn’t see it before, because I thought that was the nature of being in school. That you just don’t see very much of where you are. I saw campus. I went to Brown, and I stayed […]