February 2010
2 posts
This is in response to the Dodge Super Bowl ad:... →
January 2010
1 post
“Love is not a victory march”
– Jeff Buckley
August 2009
4 posts
Tom Robinson travel photography →
”Stumble”ed upon this, love the ones taken in Central America
"Summer Storm" by Dana Gioia
We stood on the rented patio While the party went on inside. You knew the groom from college. I was a friend of the bride. We hugged the brownstone wall behind us To keep our dress clothes dry And watched the sudden summer storm Floodlit against the sky. The rain was like a waterfall Of brilliant beaded light, Cool and silent as the stars The storm hid from the night. To my surprise, you took my...
Beautiful Imogen Heap song →
July 2009
4 posts
“Cigarettes, whiskey and wild, wild women.”
– The world’s oldest man died yesterday at age 113. This quote was his reply when asked the secret of his longevity.
Great wedding photographer's video in Chicago →
June 2009
4 posts
“I can’t think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with...”
– The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society: NYT bestseller about how literature helped the Channel Islands cope with war.
The Harsh Truth (by onedayonejob.com)
Working for someone else only sucks until you consider the alternatives
So, you want to start your own gig? Maybe raise a little moolah to do it? OK, here’s a test: (1) Were you born into the Lucky Sperm Club? (2) Do you know what you will do for health insurance? (3) Are you prepared to send your own faxes, make your own copies, answer customer complaints yourself, work 20 hours a day, hear from...
Campaigning for my dream job in Sonoma County, CA →
May 2009
5 posts
It's Time
A famous singer in the ’60s once declared that “time is on my side.” Whether he’s a dreamer, naive, or actually aware of the irony in his words, I’m not sure. But in my experience time doesn’t choose sides. Time is the one inevitable aspect of life. It hangs over every decision you make; changes and alters your plans. It’s a tragedy that no mater what...
Crisis?
In Chinese, the word for “crisis” means “danger plus opportunity.” I wish people better knew how to embrace this definition. Instead, the word provokes so much fear and angst that we’re almost paralyzed into inaction; incapable of taking the first step toward relief. I think of all the varied types of crisis. Family crisis. Personal crisis. Financial crisis. We’re even in the midst of...
The City I Was Running From
I leaned my head back against the cab, letting the hot night breeze saturate my face. The city I was running from went by my window in seamless blurs. The cab driver was talkative, said he liked to work that way to ward off the loneliness. He used to be a high-powered businessman until one year he lost $12 million in a bad deal-now money makes him sick and he much prefers driving around the city,...
April 2009
2 posts
March 2009
4 posts
Bon Bini
“You only live once,” is the cliche term that Jo uses to justify every decision and action we’ve made in Aruba this week. Although I subscribe to this saying, I never thought that its meaning should encompass drinking $9 glasses of rum in the middle of the afternoon or holding an octopus in the sea and letting it suckle on your arm. I’ve always thought of the term as a...
“Heartlessly helping himself to her bad dreams he worries did he hear a goodbye...”
– Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young
“In art and dreams proceed with abandon; in life proceed with balance.”
February 2009
8 posts
The white fog hugs my car Suddenly aware that youth is fleeting 73 miles seems too far To hide the thoughts my mind is beating The blinding, rising sun The hills rise and drop with our spirits And appears a great light Oblivious to why we’re heading near it The blinding, rising sun We bury all our what-ifs Suppress secrets we’ll never say Words unspoken may be our greatest gift Minds...
the next 13 inches
Last night I found myself crawling in my childhood bed, in my sister’s vacant room. For some reason it was incredibly soothing to be among my old, worn furniture. Maybe I needed something to cling to among a time of so many personal changes and unknowns. I am graduating college in four weeks, and the unanswered questions about my future are exciting some days; daunting and nauseating others....
The socially responsible way to enhance your vocab →
“The empty handed painter in you screams. He’s drawing crazy patterns on...”
– Bob Dylan
