Category: Random

  • The passage of time, the passage of Minos

    With Minos’ inevitable passing, I’m pushed off the mesa of my young adult life.

  • Riding with Strangers

    Pretty much every weekday morning, I get into a stranger’s car. We don’t talk as we drive across the Bay Bridge. I focus on my iPhone, get caught up on personal emails. Or I stare out the window, watching the giant cargo ships going to and from China and who knows where. I see Alcatraz…

  • Oh, Yeah. The Power of a Vision.

    I have to ask myself: well, how did we get here? (Talking Heads: the days go by / water flowing under ground…) I think it had something to do with the broad brush strokes on that piece of paper on the fridge. We weren’t studying it, but it was at eye level, and it reminded…

  • Time

    Is it normal to feel like time is diced up into tiny slivers, or powdery grains of sand? Before Alejandro, time used to feel…chunkier. Like, I could grab a chunka that. A friend’s move, a personal project–yeah, sure, throw a chunka time at those! A walk though Golden Gate park to go to Amoeba Records?…

  • Sleep

    I always loved to get my sleep on, but now I’m obsessed.

  • Nighttime in Rockridge Country

    It’s dark out here in Rockridge Country. I walked home from the Bart one night after we’d just moved to Oakland. It was 9:10 pm. I walked down a street–I don’t know, Lawton? I’d heard about frequent muggings of Rockridge commuters, but having just left night-buzzing San Francisco, I wasn’t thinking it was late, or…

  • Love, Love, Love, Love…Crazy Love

    I went to an old girlfriend’s house last night, and heard a fantastic tale of her meeting someone and being instantly, deeply attracted and completely connected to him. They had a weekend–just two days–in which they met, danced, talked, ate and had mind-blowing sex. They felt fantastically comfortable with and appreciative of one another. So…