Old Photos

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I grew up poring through photos. Yellow, faded, and crumbling. I held those images in my hands like treasures from the past. In those photos I saw smiling ghosts of youthful men that looked vaguely similar to the old men I saw at weddings and funerals. The smiling eyes of women with tiny waists peered [...]

My San Diego: Rainy Days

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We don’t get much rain here. When we do, people tend to freak out. They either forget to slow down or are so paralyzed by the strange droplets falling from the sky that they forget to hit the gas. In the little time that I was out on the road yesterday, I passed one overturned [...]

Wordless Wednesday: iSad

RIP Steve Jobs

Dance at Dawn

The marimba chimes startled me awake. I cursed myself, as I do every morning, for setting the alarm for such an early hour. Before I could swipe the screen to quiet the clamoring bells, I was shocked to see that someone was outside my window, pointing a light into the sanctuary of my bedroom. As [...]

What’s Her Name?

This question was posed to me earlier today. “What’s her name?” I sat there, wondering how I must have been unconscious or sleep walking the last few minutes before the question was asked because I had NO idea why this guy wanted to know the name of a woman I didn’t realize I had been [...]

For Better and For Worse

~ “The choice to follow love through to its completion is the choice to seek completion within ourselves. The point at which we shut down on others is the point at which we shut down on life. We heal as we heal others, and we heal others by extending our perceptions past their weaknesses. Until [...]

Mama Needs a Microchip

Okay… I’m hitting a wall. It’s the wall I’ve heard of before. The wall that is splashed with graffiti (not the really cool mural type graffiti, but just that uninspired tagging type graffiti with block letters in black marker) that says, “You can’t have it all!” When I start to feel sorry for myself for [...]

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