tie your napkin ’round your neck cherie, and we’ll provide the rest
And all of a sudden life gets really busy with good things. In less than a week is Thanksgiving and I’m headed to Marin for a day off with my nephew and a few other friends, pies in hand. If time and...
View Articlewhen we were young, we used to go under the redwood tree
Today begins my charge to the holidays. I’ve got Thanksgiving off, then the next two Sundays and then my friend from New York shows up and there’s four days in a row off. When she leaves, I work...
View Articleso fresh and so clean, clean
“Someone has OCD,” she chuckled. I was describing to her how badly I needed to clean my apartment before she got here, but she was right; I obsessively and compulsively do a lot of things. Cleaning...
View Articlesome days are diamonds, some days are rocks
I’m taking a break from cleaning to write from my new desk, the first new desk I’ve had in a long, long time. It’s simple, black, utilitarian. But my posture is better as I sit here and type, and...
View Articleeverything, everything, everything, in its right place
I overslept today. Or rather I should just say that I slept. I didn’t oversleep, unless you want to count work, which while I had planned on going in around four this afternoon, just wasn’t going to...
View Articlewatchin’ the ships roll in, then i watch them roll away again
I’m spent from an in-town vacation and I still have a full week of work ahead before I go back to the East Coast for the holidays. My friend came in from out-of-town and all we did was laugh and eat...
View Articleyes, i’m already gone, already gone
In four days I’m getting on a plane and there’s a lot to do between now and then. Or at least there should be a lot of things that I do between now and then. I need a new phone, which hopefully I’ll...
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