Rare is the morning when I can just sit down and start working. I check web comics first; I look at Tumblr, Flickr and Facebook. I tweet a twittle. I try to get my mind running and engaged. I attempt to care about life enough to motivate my working. What does it take? Sometimes, a [...]
"Wait, what?" I was surprised to be caught so off-guard. Eric and I were sitting at Eugenio's drink stand on Cocktail Alley in Montañita, Ecuador. Every night this lane running to the beach would get busy, young folk stationing themselves in plastic chairs at carts filled with fruit, copious limes, and bottles of every conceivable [...]
On Sunday January 3rd, I received a totally reasonable haircut from—get this—the Supercuts in North Beverly, across the street from Texaco and the 128 on-ramp. Oh, life! On the morning of January 4th, I waited in the Miami airport and ate guava pastries. Brittney had arrived back in San Francisco that morning from Hawaii to [...]
Packed away in some box in the basement of my childhood home is a well-worn copy of The Paper Crane by Molly Bang. I loved this book as a child and could rightly claim that I still do. The story was classic and darling and, perhaps more importantly, I have always loved art in cut [...]
Madeleine Peyroux - River (with k.d. lang) I have never spent a Christmas apart from my parents. If this were a competition, I would note that my sister, Nicole, once spent Christmas in México during college. (What, Nicole, what?) When will I break this pattern, and for what reason? I cannot yet imagine, or rather, [...]
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 [...]
My parents had a Traveling Wilburys tape that we used to listen to in our Nissan Axxess minivan circa 1990 and I loved that tape so hard. This glorious super-group passed from my awareness at some point but I remembered them, rediscovered them, sometime at the end of college. "End of the Line" is the [...]
