Kelly Storms

If we say “Let’s get together Saturday” but never pick a time or place, do we have plans? This seems to depend on which person you ask.

It’s nice coming home with a few good pictures and realizing there were long stretches when you forgot to take any.

There’s a dangerous stretch of conversation where it feels too late to ask someone’s name again, but you’re no closer to remembering it.

What’s something you tried once and immediately wanted to do again?

Old handwritten recipes will give you an exact quarter teaspoon of something, then tell you to add flour until it feels right.

Some friendships run entirely on one person texting “this made me think of you” every few months and the other replying “I was just thinking about you.”

Sometimes “How was your weekend?” turns up something you want to hear another twenty minutes about.

What could someone invite you to that you know almost nothing about, but you’d still be excited to go?

A bathroom towel you’re not supposed to dry your hands on puts a guest in a difficult position.

You look at an old family photo enough times and eventually start studying the kitchen behind everyone. That phone cord reached halfway across the house.

“You look good” is a perfectly good place to stop a sentence.

Which song would be the worst possible choice for your entrance music?

Reading outside sounds like a good plan until the wind decides it’s ready for the next page.

Mara has a meeting at ten-thirty. Her mother’s train is running late. “You can go,” her mother says. The car is just beyond the platform. “The Next Train,” this week’s A Life Well Noticed Sunday Conversation: kellystorms.com/p/the-next-t…

Halloween gives “You look absolutely terrible” a brief opportunity to be a compliment.

Movie credits get more interesting when they start listing jobs you didn’t know existed.

You can have an invention from any movie, TV show, or book. It works exactly as advertised. What are you getting?

What was the best house in your neighborhood on Halloween when you were a kid, and what made it the best?`

An avocado spends days being too hard, then apparently expects you to be available at 2:15 on Thursday.

If you could change one thing about the room you’re sitting in, what would it be?