We’d gone several weeks at Greenstar without a serious breakdown. We’d had the little, uncertain ones where they keep us around while they fix things. But yesterday we had the kind where they throw up their hands and say, “Send … Continue reading
The heat rose again this week, which made me happy. Still, I miss real “dog days” in August. Is it just the tendency of memory to idealize and amplify, or were summers longer and hotter when we were kids? In … Continue reading
More often than not, Fridays are good and interesting days at Greenstar. This past one, there were lots of problems with the machines — in an eight-hour shift, I think the belts were running no more than twenty or twenty-five … Continue reading
We had a fire at Greenstar today! No one was injured. It happened while we were eating lunch, so pretty much everyone was already out of the building, sitting in the concrete “yard” between the plant and the office trailer, … Continue reading
I’ve described my summer practice of sleeping in my open balcony doorway. The other night, I woke up at about 4:00 a.m. with the full moon poised in the western sky above me, and its light streaming down over me. … Continue reading