December is a month designed to wreak havoc on fledgling habits. Habits like heaving myself out of bed in the morning to develop muscle tone or shifting my eating toward nutrition and away from booze. My gratitude series joined the downward slide and plopped into a heap of crunchy pine needles and broken dreams. And [...]
Hello, people in my computer! Ready for another gob smacking, dog snacking, fob snapping list? (I’ve decided to become more creative with my expostulations. Call it an early New Year’s resolution.) Part of me thinks I should be writing more if I’m going to do these every week, so I don’t overload you on blob [...]
We meant to go to Tosca, because Tosca has legendary Irish coffee and pervasive rumors that Sean Penn destroyed the pool table in the back room. Sean Penn could trip over me on his way to attack the juke box with nunchucks and I probably wouldn’t notice (handy in San Francisco – crazies on MUNI [...]
If someone gave Sasquatch a sledgehammer and a cappuccino and set him loose in a newly constructed Ikea, he would have more delicacy than I do. On Friday night, I was at a bar with some friends, including one who cleverly maneuvered the entire group to the spot where his new crush was hanging out. [...]
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 [...]
My mom and I drove up to Nevada City this weekend to celebrate a friend’s 80th birthday. She’s the matriarch of quite a clan, full of siblings who actually like each other and good-natured ribbing over the collective lack of vocal talent. If memory serves, “WE SUCK!” was the rallying call of the off-key John Denver [...]
Saturday was one of those idyllic San Francisco days when wine flows, shoulders burn, paella is inhaled, iPods are recovered in Kinko’s against all odds, trips to Tuscany are planned, you find yourself holding a can of Coors Light on someone’s roof, and the next day is a total loss. Because the human body needs [...]
Details tend to elude me. I forget things. Not just after they’ve happened but often while they’re happening. This is a glamorous and otherwordly skill, one that tends to annoy postal clerks. So I want to be better about recording Awesome Things before they pass into the dusty annals of memory, memory I can’t access [...]
Skiing – or, more accurately, rolling down snowy slopes like a 130 (FINE, 140) pound snowball on sticks – was one of the first items on my 2010 bucket list. I decided I was going to make it happen and two days later, an old friend emailed to ask if I wanted to go up [...]
I love discovering things within walking distance of my front door that I had no idea existed. Not annoying things like an overabundance of meter maids (I know they exist) or the latest den of hippies who offer you pot as you walk home (if I was of a different persuasion that would count as [...]
