After she sat shell-shocked on the couch for a week, looking out the window at the horrible neighborhood I'm now living in, I took her to apply for cocktail-waitressing jobs.
I made fat batons of the cucumber and ate them, dipped in hummus, as I sat outside shelling the peas.
This, of course, was not what they wanted to hear, and for a few moments everyone just sat there shell-shocked.
"The kids would sit and shell corn and peel pears, and the women would talk," said Mr. Kemp, 72, a retired draftsman whose extended family lives on a single block.
Ditto Grimes on the cover of the latest NME, shot in pink tuille while sat inside a shell.
One unexploded shell sat on the ground beneath a pupil's chair in the middle of the street.
We've sat in the shell of the prison in Philippi, in northeast Greece, from which the Acts of the Apostles say Paul was freed by an earthquake.
Shell sat out the big oil mergers of the late 1990s.
The shell sat next to a twisted pile of rebar left by a private company he'd paid to clear his land.
But in 2013, Casa Aztlan lost the building to foreclosure, and for years, it sat empty, a shell of its former self.
"Unemployment is the only thing we have here", declared Dumel Deralus, smiling grimly as we sat in the shell of a concrete building that will soon be a new expanded home for the Organisation for Community Development in Thomazeau, (ODECT), an Oxfam partner working to improve economic and social conditions in the town, about two hours drive north-east of the Haitian capital Port au Prince.
