One of my most favorite messages that I have ever received, truly, is on a Post-it note from Despair.com, and this note is full of misspellings. And I love it something fierce, enough so that I apparently still have the note five and a half years after I found it stuck to the monitor in [...]
What am I doing with my car? I am sitting in my dining room on 17th and Denny and looking out the window at Sparkle Motion, wondering at its fate while I am far far away. And I think about the six weeks that I have left in Seattle—six weeks from today until December 22nd—and [...]
What matters (other than Twitter, naturally) occupy my extremely valuable time?
DREW DOPE! I put together a fun little website called POPE FACT. If you don't get it, don't worry—the website is an online version of a real-life game involving writing fake tattoos on people's knuckles. The launch fell on, and was in honor of, the [...]
Camera Obscura – Razzle Dazzle Rose
This story is impossible to write perfectly.
This story is a smell and a feeling and a smile and three years and a half years of big life changes and rain. Seattle has treated me well and for that I am thankful. I have experienced such fantastic joy and friendship [...]
I flew to Oaxaca on February 23rd, 2009, to meet my sister, Nicole, her then-fiancé-now-husband Mark, and our families. We gathered there for Nicole and Mark's wedding, for a wonderful week of delicious food and happy urban wanderings and a few moments of perhaps more stressful wedding preparation. Sometimes, I may have looked a bit [...]
I am awake, right now, so late because—can you guess? Come on, I thought you knew me better than that. I have an early plane flight! Why else would I be awake?
Oh, right, I stay awake this late all the time when I have work to do. Um, okay, moving on to my actual topic.
Ahem.
I [...]
I return now to writing at two in the morning, just hours away from a fateful trip to México. I cannot claim that I recall correctly the moments described below my present comments but I will attest that surfing in Tamarindo left an indelible impression on me.
I began surfing in earnest with only the second [...]
