The Tomorrow Box

by Curtis Sittenfeld

were in Breckenridge, that’s the time where I really experienced that closeness with others. When you become a public person, the closeness is hard to find because a lot of times people want something from you. But that period was relaxed, it was fun, my professional success was around the corner. In some ways, looking back, it’s like I had a hunch it was coming. Anyway—you were my entrée into the Octagon, obviously.

‘Long time no see.’ I just want to mention, because I suspect you’re unaware, that there’s a racist etymology to that phrase. Its origins are either with indigenous people or Chinese immigrants, but either way, with you being an English teacher and an educator, I thought you’d want to know.”

Hmm never knew that

Had that bit about “long time no see” been, as my students would have said, a flex, or had it been a kindness? What, I wondered, is an enviable life? What is a purposeful life?

I think that was a dig...lol