Morida: here’s another tidbit from my vacation in Florida, and one of the few site-specific things I wrote there. Tomorrow I’ll start in on some fiction, but meantime these are…
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The impending death of my desktop bamboo shoot reminds me of the plant I didn’t kill – my spider plant from college. I’ve forgotten so many details of that incredible time and space,…
It was mid-afternoon and Kel had just returned from the grocery, where she’d forgotten to buy the cheese and red onion that I needed to make my fabulous grilled sandwiches (patent pending). …
Since I go to LA tomorrow for a commission meeting, I figgered this might be a good time to disgorge a little essay about airports, and something I saw in one not long ago…
Life during…
The store was big, just like all the others identical to it across the continent. The air outside, cold and a little moist, startled us as we got out of our car in the vast macadam sea of the…
I’ve been a bit too busy lately, and with a trip to NEPA coming up in less than 48 hours, I anticipate more busyness downstream. It’s not a bad thing – I rather like keeping busy, especially…
It was really a short walk – just three blocks; and by the time I was heading home, most folk had already cleared out. It’s not really an “after hours” part of town where I…
I was invited to Sarah’s going-away party, but only because she’d sat in the cube across from me for a few months nearly a year ago. Otherwise I probably wouldn’t have known…
I’m torn, honestly. Random brainscraps from my memopad? or an honest-to-goodness vignette? The vignette is sort of too much like that story I just posted but it’s fairly…
I’m off to Denver for a conference. No, really. This one is for work and I’ll be busybusybusy all the livelong day. No reliable computer access, no sense of how my time will…
I’m back! Yes, you knew I was gone, you just forgot, you insensitive cad you. Well that’s okay, I had lots and lots of fun. I’ll have photos soon – of the gorgeous north…
From Last Night:
So hello again, and it’s good to be back. (pause for uninterrupted loner cricket-chirping.) So anyway, the rest was much appreciated and we’re all nicely fed and…
He really looked like a very normal dude, with a grey sweatshirt, understated blue jeans and clean white sneaks. He was tall - six-plus, and big in the arms and wide across the belly; his big…
Oh man, this has not been an easy day so far. Leaving the gym this morning I noticed that, for the first time in months, it was still dark at 6:30. I got back home to find that we’d…
I cannot call this anything but a story, because Robert told it to me and he had heard it from someone who had heard it from someone else. And as I heard it, I couldn’t help but sense an…
I looked up and it was five o’clock, and then 5:40, and then 6:15. I’d had a lot of work to do so I’d put my head down and did it. I think it was going on seven when I stepped out…
I’m back - and better than ever! We had a whirlwind tour of lesser Porchland, including a few local playgrounds, a small handful of finer hippie-friendly dining establishments, some of…
It occurs to me, now that I’ve hit “publish,” that this is my MLK Day post. I mean no disrespect by it. Really, now that I think on it, I believe this story helps me…
I sort of sensed that something was going to happen. Each of them had made a distinct impression on me as they’d independently passed me on the way to the back of the bus: the rotund, rollicking…
I’m trusting you to believe me when I tell you this, but I don’t usually notice first off whether another dude is cute. That’s just not where I usually go. So I was actually…