We have departed from Berkeley for our 6-week, 16-state tour of eastward travel. The last week has been filled with incredibly busy days and nights of packing, shipping, cleaning, and saying goodbye. Sometimes there just isn’t enough time (or a…
Category: A Day in the Life
What I Did This Weekend
If you prefer photos, you can see a nice sample, including my second lifetime tux wearing in the pictures displayed here. I dropped off Pandora successfully at her temporary home with Emily’s cousins in Altadena. The meowing calmed to once…
You Can Never Escape, You Can Only Move South Down the Coast
At least, I hope the cat won’t escape. Pandora and I are heading to LA today. She’s going to her new two-month temporary home with Em’s cousins in Altadena, then I’m on to the BH to hang with Russ for…
“My Girlfriend, My Parents, and My Girlfriend’s Parents”
As fun as the round I posted last week was about Peter Pan is as difficult as the round I post today was. Since we’re going backwards, this round was just before and earned us the right to participate in…
Keep Theming
Don’t worry, it’s still Sundown in America. But my own filter for this reality will be dominated in the coming weeks by Emily’s and my upcoming cross-country odyssey. Hence the new accoutrements around here. But it also seems like a…
The Limits of Humanity
Bonus points for those of you who read today’s title and said to themselves, quietly, “What? About five feet in front of our face?” Emily and I spent the day at the newly rebuilt Academy of Sciences in San Francisco.…
I’ve Wrestled Bigger Crocs Than This
Sorting papers sure is fun… or something. In reality, though, nestled amongst years of dust and old bills are little moments, small time machines that immediately take me back to a precise day years earlier when I saw a movie…
Summer Sojourn Tour Dates Announced!
Garage sale was a big success, though we wound up exhausted and sunburned when it was all said and done. I’m now sitting on a stepladder at our computer, but getting rid of so much furniture was a huge relief…
Everything Must Go!
Garage Sale. Saturday. I need to pay my heart’s outstanding bills. A cracked-up compass and a pocket watch, some plastic daffodils, the cutlery and coffee cups I stole from all-night restaurants, a sense of wonder (only slightly used), a year…
Old School
My house is a mess. My life is kind of feeling like a mess too. So much stuff. What to keep, what to discard, what to try to sell in a climate where there are no buyers. Challenges all. Piggybacking…