I Tipped An Exhausted Waitress One Hundred Dollars Until I Found Something In My Takeout Box

I stop at the same restaurant most nights, and I have for two years, and I have never once examined why.

The honest answer, if I am being honest, is that it sits between my office and my apartment at a distance that makes it a natural pause, a decompression chamber between the fluorescent intensity of the work and the specific quality of silence that continue reading …