Therein lies the rub. Therein lies the rub. Therein lies the rub. Why has everyone agreed to this misquote? Aye, there’s the rub. ——- This will change your life: Stove-top popcorn. ...
One weekend: City lights in the rear-view, The Sunday Times, an Irish pub, sunsets, crashing waves, cold nights, sweaters, drive-up beach fronts, and books and books and books and books and books and...
I met a glass blower today on Capitol Hill. I didn’t know that could be your living these days. Apparently, Seattle has the second most glass blowing studios in the world after Murano in Venice...
At the bakery in the market, the woman behind the counter always calls me “scrumple.” Like, “Whaddya need today scrumple?” “Try this this sample you scrumple you.”...
Through west Texas you told me I needed to take a step back when all we had was yellow brick after yellow brick after yellow brick, I stayed between the lines. And that always bigger picture of thing...
Sometimes, my life feels like just one long episode of Moesha. —– I friend of mine in northern Canada sent me a picture of herself and her two huskies in layers and layers of clothes in a...
The Chairman at work. April : What is Zumba? I keep hearing about it and seeing ads… Me : We walked past a class in session this weekend. Looked like step aerobics without the steps. April : Oh...
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Amie flirts with the subway guy enough that he lets her ride for free. When her wink is just right, or when she’s not wearing anything over her bikini top, he lets both of us through the handic...
Lately, I’m wondering why disposal cameras were ever a thing but more than that, wondering why I got duplicates of every picture ever. I probably threw away 300 pictures today, all blurry, unde...
Sometimes, this is what every city looks like.
She sat across the table thumbing at the handle of her cup of espresso, reading over the local news paper, a school graduation, a street rezoned. I stare over her shoulder at the men across the stree...
Cenotes : I may have found my new religion… The water so clear and deep and you can dive in without a splash, and swim swim swim through all the cracks and crevices, get carried drifting into t...
I’m told a cenote is a deep water hole. If you would’ve asked me, it would’ve translated to, loosely: “All you need for a summer afternoon. Bring your own cerveza.” I sw...
Years back, my father had the life philosophy that he was young and poor so he might as well do whatever he wants. Now, my father has the philosophy that he’s old and rich so he might as well d...
Rita starts smoking on the Trasher tour. Elie gives her a pack of Marlboro Lights and she thinks he’d be impressed if she empties it that first night. After coughing and laughing and smiling ju...
Richard is trying to figure out the profound meaning of having the ocean closer to his bed than the bathroom. He’s taking it deep talking about “the soul of man’s desire” and ...
Shannon, newly engaged, being told of the greatness of Charles Martel compared with Victoria Beckham. Battle of Tours (year 732) vs. Spice Girls Reunion Tour (circa 2008)?
Spending nights watching lit up road sings the light sputtering on and off you sleeping in the passenger seat my eyes glossed your head against the window my hand flopped over the steering whe...
“Yeah, that’s right. We all need to go back to the barter system. You watch my cat for an hour and I’ll make you a bowl of hummus.” – Jessica Baer, waiting for our smoot...
Joel moved out to California expecting something and after a year moved back to the east coast. “I liked it fine,” he told me, “but I mean c’mon, not even one tremor… Is...
I remember wishing as a kid and I’d wish on anything. I had a rule about red cars; they needed a wish each. And stars, but that’s a given, and sometimes planes in the big city, as planes ...
Stop running around and suddenly then you have to stand still. Amazing how things work out that way. Stuck at Woodrow’s Washateria another afternoon, a man started talking to me, folding his br...
It’s amazing what a few christmas lights and a brief moment of springtime can do.
Some nights, clarity seems so close. These days, I’m pondering over small rooms, devotion, laceless shoes, dying daisies, laundry days, Germans, exercise, and how much time it takes to clear on...
So this is Sanieh. And we’ll be leading a retreat this summer here : … and I think you should come. For more info, click HERE!
He handed me 30 cents he had in his pocket. “For tolls,” he said. Small, yes, but it’s nice not to have to pay all life’s tolls yourself. We drove further and further away. On...
There are times I wish I still saw New York as the absolute center of the universe. I used to tell myself that an art movement was imminent. In writing, in dance, in visual art, it didn’t matte...
Amazing how no matter how meager, no matter how grand, time swallows all. It’s as chilling as it is comforting.
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