I met him on a day when I couldn’t care less. I had stayed up until 7:30 in the morning playing Scrabble and Scattergories and we were set to meet at 11:00. My smile was big from humoring my childhood for enough hours that I had stayed awake to the point of adult responsibilities … More the way those things do.

Inertia. That’s what I am. I am the physical object resistant to any change in its state of motion, including changes to my speed. My direction. It’s me and my tendency to keep moving in a straight line at this constant velocity that slows for no one. That speeds for no one. Just one that … More Inertia.