Nature, Second Inning
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 […]
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 […]
I don’t know how to feel about the Air Force Museum at Castle. It’s probably the largest, most impressive collection of fighting aircraft on display anywhere outside of Dayton, stretching […]
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 […]
Why is there so much poetry in departures? God knows how many forests, let alone poets, have died trying to explain it. For me, it’s something existential: up to this […]
Way back in 1993, when the web was brand new and Usenet was still king, I posted what amounts to a proto-blog (ulog?), a chronicle of my 13-day trip ferrying […]