The Mug
My elbow nudged the mug off the corner of the bathroom sink. It toppled to its side and slid gently into the basin. The good news was that the hot tea was captured and drained immediately. The bad news was the mug suddenly was a mug no more. It looked like it had been mugged, [...]
Restoring a Friendship
Ah, the power of Facebook. One day recently, I received a mysterious Friend request. It had no details, just a name—one I didn’t recognize. Or did I? Something about it was vaguely familiar. Soon afterward, another request came in. This one said, “Could you possibly be the Larry Garland I knew back in my college [...]
Paris Found, Paris Lost
Recently, my partner and I went to see the movie Revolutionary Road, which stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. As a married couple with young children, the protagonists have settled for less in their lives than they imagined they would—settling, literally, in suburbia. The wife dreams of moving the family to Paris, finding their true [...]
GARLANDblog What follows are my Southern-tinged observations (a blog, if you will) on the world around me, largely in and about New York City—my personal Oz. THE JOURNEY Artists can take black and white, divvy it up and parcel it out in shapes and shades of gray that paint the past, or just [...]