meaning

“Have you seen them?” the Costco checker asked the woman behind me in line. “The Christmas trees they just put out?” It was September. I might as well confess that the dresser drawers in my office are starting to fill with gifts. Amazon is already bringing treasures that I’m squirreling away for December, and I’ve…

“How has your day been?” he asked her, while she stuck a price on his fried chicken box at the deli counter. “Oh, you know. Just another day,” she answered. A sad answer, don’t you think? Just another day. Later that night, we were on the way home from a friend’s house. I was staring…