I guess I still don’t have the writing-for-a-blog groove down. Everything that comes out ends up sounding like narration. Fairly decent narration, I’ve been told, but that’s not what this […]

When I was a kid, we always came home from the dentist with a new toothbrush. I always wanted a blue one, though the fact that I don’t ever remember […]

BART station, SFO I’m supposed to be, at this moment, taxiing out from the gate, making sure my seat back is in the fully up-and-locked position, at the start of […]

Overlooking Monterey Bay by brilliant starlight. Cold as all get-out – colder than it should be, but then, we’ve had snow in the hills how many times this winter already? […]

It’s come up a few times that I’m spending the week as a single dad, putting Andy through her paces while Devon and Jem are out of town. “Oh, really? […]

[From an old online journal of our trip to Kenya back in 1993 or so, before blogs existed] Ridge Reynolds’ job, we were told, was to make sure that the […]

Stuck in the Vancouver airport this afternoon, writing code reviews on my laptop, and plugged into Brian Joseph on my headphones (Cal’s Chevy). Vancouver’s always felt to me like it […]