Loneliness
This may sound like a strange parallel to make, but going to the gym and listening to This American Life have always shared a particular trait for me and one that I have a hard time understanding. Basically, both activities take up about an hour. One 24th of a day....
How to Make the Perfect Sandwich
Every day someone would walk behind the counter of the neighborhood coffee shop where I worked. Behind the counter and into the kitchen. I would look up, exasperated, with a serrated knife in my hand. But not this time. This time it was Mike, “Big Mike.”...Been Smoking Too Long
Booger and I are driving south. We are going to visit our grandmother and our mother. At the same time. That don’t happen too much. March first cherry blossoms are everywhere on both sides of the highway, a gradient of white to pink exploding beneath central...Above San Diego
A couple nights ago long time friend and fellow caffeine peddler/small plane pilot, Nat took Mei and I up into San Diego’s most inner outasphere. For most of the time we were about 3000 feet above sea level but the ground below us looked teasingly touchable....
This is not up to my potential
This past week an old high school classmate came into my work – “Miracles Cafe” a small independent seaside coffeehouse – and asked me the inevitable: “So … what are you up to these days?” She said it with such cheerfulness...Latest Photos
