I’m dancing “Hava Nagilah” with the Catholic mother of my ex-girlfriend. At a Bat Mitzvah in a Buddhist temple. I’m having the time of my life, and I know that […]

Okay – in the interest of journalistic integrity, I need to correct myself: Contrary to popular belief and prior assertion, the Center of the Universe is not at the base of […]

Damn, I love this place. Sitting at waterside in the shade of late summer grapevines, watching kayakers ply their way up the ship canal and under the Fremont Bridge. Overhead, […]

The story about Chuck Yeager isn’t as good as I’ve made it sound, of course, but that’s going to have to wait. I’m on the road again, and will try […]

Did I ever tell you about the time I outran a Boston Marathon champion and Olympic distance runner? Sixteen years ago, I was running hard, three or four times a […]

It’s funny – I really think my best writing comes when I plan to write about one thing, but end up writing about another. Which is hard to operationalize; I […]

Stories are what we gather to explain the path of our lives. We take these stories, these individual threads, to the loom of Time, and weave them there into the […]

Nothing exotic today – just a trip down the block. For the past few months, we’ve had a little suburban revival going on in our town. Years ago, when the […]

Sorry – didn’t mean to be away from the blog for so long, but the Mongolian Death Flu really blindsided me. Or bushwhacked me. I like the sound of that […]

So, on that last post, I tried channeling Jenny Lawson, The Bloggess. I figured that, as long as I was kicked to the curb by a cold and was dazed by cough […]