misadventure
Maybe the reason I like to travel is that I’ve got an almost complete lack of long-term memory. Or at least a selective one. The next time I set off […]
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"Next!"
I’ve discovered that I’m desperately dependent on getting along with people. Okay, didn’t just “discover” – I’ve known it practically forever. But constantly reminded. The TSA agent barking orders to […]
Second Life – For Real
For the past two weeks, I’ve been immersed in a whole different kind of second life. Sure, I’ve dipped into Linden Labs very excellent (and addictive) virtual world, but never […]
Plans A through D
It’s that kind of day at Sheble. Hot as hell by the time I roll into the airport at 6:45. “Senior” (what everyone calls Mr. Sheble himself) is in the […]
Kingman
The first thing that hit me when I got off the plane in Las Vegas is that I never really appreciated just how hot the atmosphere can really get when […]
Alder Creek camping
Hiding upstairs, at “the Tahoe house”. Devon’s parents are in the midst of sloooowly moving from Berkeley up to Incline Village. This is something like year five of the process; […]
Steel town memories
Eastbound, to the old stomping ground. Back in 1998, as Harlequin (the first of my doomed startups) was in freefall, I’d started looking around for a safe landing. Shumeet and […]
Something about a train
Pulling out of San Jose, on the upper deck of a near-empty “Capitol Express” to Sacramento, I find myself getting romantic No, not like that – about the train ride […]
Folklife
Tucked into the corner of a basement guestroom on a rainy Seattle afternoon. Jeremy, plugged into iPod and a suitable Geronimo Stilton story, curls around me on the bed and […]
The Fragility of Life
This morning, I was running late on my way up to Berkeley. I had abandoned my desk today for a lunchtime meeting with Orville Schell, Dean of UC Berkeley’s school […]
David Pablo Cohn 