As any DIY project goes, you think you’re going to do one thing and something else comes up. Pretty soon that one thing has taken back burner so many times, I’m not sure it can even fit on any burner at that point. Bus Conversions […]
Isn’t life such a fucking conundrum? Just when you think you’re doing well, making progress, and growing, along comes this bitch named anxiety to knock you back a few steps. She makes you feel like a failure, like all the progress you thought you’d made […]
As I reflect on the last five years of my life, I could probably write an entire book about it. Today marks five years since my return to California from New York City. I can thank Facebook for that reminder. Amongst my memories was a […]
Since my return from a solo trip to Japan with my fat-ass backpack in tow, I’ve been asked many times what some of the highlights were. The man with the gold-capped teeth in Nara is definitely one of the first Japan highlights that come to […]
A traveling nurse by the name of Theresa, sporting a colorful scarf over a plaid top, sat down next to me at gate 150 of Tom Bradley’s International wing at LAX. Throughout our thirty-minute conversation, she called me, “honey child,” and “mama” singing my praises […]
I dropped a piece of pizza crust on the ground tonight during my dinner and immediately felt like someone punched me in the gut. A month and a half ago, my sweet furbaby boy, Bambino, would have quickly swooped up this crumb. There are so […]
It has been a while and I would apologize for the absence but I wouldn’t be acknowledging my need for the disconnect. While I’m quite familiar with death, I would be doing my peace of mind a disservice if I were not to disconnect for […]
I haven’t quite found the words over the last week. I’ve been trying to find my voice, figure out what it is that I’m supposed to share with you all. There is so much personal stuff going on – ups and downs, changes, deaths, and […]
I said goodbye to George, my furbaby boy of nine years this past Monday morning, after complications related to a dental cleaning procedure. I could get into all the medical mumbo jumbo, but I’d rather not. It was a tragic accident and suffice it to […]
On Tuesday, September 11th, 2001, I was sitting, ironically enough, in U.S. History class during my junior year of high school. We received news of the first plane hitting one of the Twin Towers. It was in the following period, art class, that I watched […]
