Many sets of spare keys have found their way into my possession lately. The reasons are many and varied but all share a common(ly misplaced)* trust in my innocent-looking face. So I use my keys to do things like fetch people’s mail while they’re in Dubai, feed geriatric (yet astonishingly spry) cats, and walk large [...]
Sometimes I find things so whimsical and glorious that my entire day is made. As making my day generally requires some magnificent foodstuff (perhaps a small dish of mushrooms sauteed in butter and garlic and wine) served by a man with a chiseled jaw (smoldering glances optional but welcome), this is quite an accolade. I [...]
One of the things I’m learning (in a hesitant, meandering sort of fashion) is that it doesn’t do any good to speculate on the outcome of a relationship or event, because you just never know how things will turn out. Ever. Even if you think you know, even if the signs seem to point in [...]
Lately, I’ve been resisting this blog with such tremulous might and stubborn force of will that you’d assume it was a standardized test that I, in my dewy naivete, assumed would determine the course of my entire life. Huh. Perhaps I’ve managed to convince myself it has. The Algorithm of CRAZY 1. I’m a writer. [...]
Today, I left my house. Which proved itself a very good thing when I was handed salad and poached chicken, met a very sweet dog, was given a glimpse into my new dream apartment, got complimented on my shoes, and received several emails of the “we would like to consider paying you for your awesomeness” [...]
My hands have been threatened with oven mitts and duct tape at least four times today. Possibly because the slight poison oak welt I contracted in Big Sur (not leprosy! this was a great relief, as I enjoy my limbs and would prefer to keep them) has proven very enticing to my fingernails. There’s nothing [...]
It’s been a summer full of good things – hiking, sailing, getting kicked off Ocean Beach by the cops despite slyly burying my can of beer in the sand, letting a former Chanel model paw through my closet and take me shopping to rectify (rather major) wardrobe deficiencies, leading a friend from Australia on an [...]
