There are two types of heartsores in life. At 28, I have only experienced one kind. The first are those caused by boys. Or girls. And the moment they tell you: I do not choose you.
These moments, in a word, suck. They creep up on you like creditors – leaving messages you only listen part [...]
Posts Tagged ‘life’
the big move
Posted in all, tagged life, moving on on October 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I said my final goodbye to the apartment on Lombard Street yesterday. My room was just a pile of cardboard boxes, taped and stacked pyramid style in the center last week. The walls were bare, save for a few nails dotting their surface; the only sign of life was a white bath towel hanging [...]
Sometimes the only clarity you get occurs at 35,000 feet. Over patchwork corn fields and roadways carved through pine forests somewhere in Pennsylvania. When state lines are indistinguishable and you believe every big river you cross is the Mississippi. It’s during these moments when wedged between the window and an armrest that I actually consider [...]
idea
Posted in all, tagged giving thanks, grateful, ideas, life, personal projects, the grateful project on August 18, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Because having two blogs is not nearly egocentric enough, I am going to come clean and tell you I recently started a third. No, it’s not another stalker web site. And no, I don’t really have that much more to say to you or members of the Red Sox front office at this time. [...]
hopeful
Posted in love, tagged life, love, relationships on July 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I interviewed a retired professor yesterday. We were supposed to talk about his research. We were supposed to talk about how he shaped his field and impacted two generations of young scientists. We were supposed to talk about his hopes for the future. We were not supposed to talk about love.
But that is exactly [...]
grateful
Posted in love, my people, tagged calistoga, friendship, grateful, indian springs, life on July 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Editor’s note: I refuse to write about apartment searching again until we have found a place, signed a lease and decanted the wine. You people want to read a success story. All you need know is that Friday we passed on an apartment with a neighbor who enjoys cooking in the buff and directly in [...]
+ to calendar: live
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged iphones, life, living in the moment, technology on July 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
My boss wandered into my office the other day to drop off a few assignments. We exchanged our typical banter – where I express concern over him double fisting coffee and double check his attire and he apologizes for interrupting my day of blogging by giving me actual work to do. But instead of leaving [...]
apartment hunting. sigh.
Posted in all, tagged apartment searching, craigslist, life on July 2, 2009 | 4 Comments »
After several months of apartment shopping in San Francisco, sifting through hundreds of ads on craigslist.org, separating the too-good-to-be-trues (they always are), from the junk (always posted in caps), and whittling it down to potential places in my price range (not much) – I’ve learned a few tricks. And because you are so lucky (and [...]
30 days notice
Posted in all, tagged apartment searching, friendship, life, moving on on June 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Sometimes you just have to close your eyes and jump.
For much of the past year I have been contemplating moving out of my apartment. When I first unpacked the Subaru last January I expected staying six months – maybe a year. At the time, I just needed a place to lay my head at night [...]
no other heaven
Posted in all, my people, tagged friends, hiking, life, mount tamalpais, new start on June 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Blades of grass tickled my fingertips as I walked with palms outstretched. Following a narrow trail snaking up more than 2,000 feet above the Pacific Ocean, I used rocks embedded into the hillside for leverage and kept my head down to avoid tripping on one of the tiny holes some animal had burrowed into the [...]
