Jesse steps closer and investigates the skin. Tom shows him how its both flexible and brittle at the same time, similar to wax paper that has begun to break down with age. Jesse traces his finger across the black racing stripe that runs vertically on the skin. Tom gestures it in my direction. “Want to touch?” he says. “There’s no... »

One of the first things our contractor Heath told me was that he hates clean-up on a job site. Having never worked at a job site, I couldn’t really speak to this preference. It seemed to me at the time that clean-up had to be easier than almost any other job that might need doing, and I readily volunteered to... »