Bill Pearse

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• Last Sunday in Germany

  By Bill Pearse on February 1, 2025 • ( 7 )

  

  2 Feb 25 Now the train moved in reverse as it left the station. I always enjoyed bookending my arrival in Germany with a mirror image at the end. From the time I first saw mom waiting for me at… Read More ›

• Last Friday in January

  By Bill Pearse on January 30, 2025 • ( 2 )

  

  31 Jan 25 I did not feel it pressing down on me, or lifting me from my bed in the middle of the night, that mad desire to capture the moment of being here. It happened in the past, for… Read More ›

• Do the collapse

  By Bill Pearse on January 30, 2025 • ( 2 )

  

  30 Jan 25 Went to the Rat for lunch today and yeah, I got the Schweinerückensteak, a kleine portion that was still too big. Convinced mom to forgo the Kaiserschmarrn in favor of a walk. Almost broke down for some… Read More ›

• Dreams are like water, colorless and dangerous

  By Bill Pearse on January 28, 2025 • ( 9 )

  

  28 Jan 25 In the dream I was a kid again with my schoolmates going somewhere far away on a school trip. We were filing into a large crowded seating area and everyone was quickly deciding who they wanted to… Read More ›

• Last Sunday in France

  By Bill Pearse on January 26, 2025 • ( 3 )

  

  27 Jan 25 It was a strange night at the paella party. Laurent and Nanou invited two couples; the women were friends of Nanou’s since high school, one couple Algerian and the other couple about to be married, everyone in… Read More ›

• Les Bres in Metz

  By Bill Pearse on January 25, 2025 • ( 2 )

  

  25 Jan 25 In the morning Laurent is sitting at the kitchen table with a little knife shaving the pith off an orange. The night before he boiled the milk with the cinnamon sticks as the base for the crème… Read More ›

• The French

  By Bill Pearse on January 25, 2025 • ( 5 )

  

  25 Jan 25 Yesterday we drove to France to spend the weekend with our friends Laurent and Nanou, their kids Romane, Valentine and Mathis, a new baby boy named Hector. Driving across Europe I felt expansive. In two or three… Read More ›

• The big eraser

  By Bill Pearse on January 22, 2025 • ( 11 )

  

  23 Jan 25 After days of it the fog finally broke and everything looked crystalline or coated in confectioners’ sugar, flocked. Before bed I read Anne Lamott’s memoir, the scene of her with her dad that day at the beach… Read More ›

• Belongings and belonging

  By Bill Pearse on January 21, 2025 • ( 6 )

  

  22 Jan 25 In the morning the frost looked like snow on the rooftops and roads and made for art photography that never came out right. I liked the town better when it was empty and closed down and imagined… Read More ›

• Figures in the fog

  By Bill Pearse on January 20, 2025 • ( 2 )

  

  21 Jan 25 All the rooms in mom’s house were irregular, the lines along the ceilings sloped or sagging. The toilet in her bathroom angled downwards. The problem I had with the old photos and going through them was they… Read More ›

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