I’m back in an internet cafe, one with a painfully slow 33.6 Kbps that makes me yearn for the national parks of Nepal. We’re holed up in Orchha, India, a village of a scant 9,000 people with an incredible number…
Tag: A Day in the Life
Quick Update from Nepal
Hello from Chitwan National Park in Nepal! I won’t attempt to try to describe the events of the past few days, but they have been among the most memorable in a very long time. I am currently sitting in an…
Life as an Emotional Ocean
I don’t think I could possibly encapsulate what the last week has looked like in my life, but you can tell it looked like something with the absence of all the posts. It’s like someone going quiet in a room…
It’s Official
At least now I can stop hiding some of what’s going on, and maybe even be a little less cryptic. My last day in my current job (Contracts/Information Systems Administrator of Glide’s Youth and Family Development Division) will be next…
I Ain’t Gonna Work on Maggie’s Farm No More
I have yet to see “I’m Not There,” allegedly a very good film about the many sides of Bob Dylan. And maybe “I’m Not There” is all the message one needs. I have written so much about being there or…
Be There Then: 2007 in Review
2007, I miss you already. I don’t often do full-scale year-in-review pieces, but I have always enjoyed reading them. In particular, my work-friend Pete’s 2007 in review was particularly striking to me. I liked his idea of top ten moments…
Be Here Now
People talking without speaking People hearing without listening People writing songs that voices never shared No one dared Disturb the sounds of Silence I think “Sounds of Silence” may have been about cellphones. There’s been a whole new level of…
It’s Bad to Be Right
Maybe I should’ve made numeric predictions after all. What’s utterly hilarious to me about the current political situation is how the script of what’s going on ratchets back and forth so quickly. Two weeks ago, this was Hillary’s nomination to…
Independence
Yesterday was rather surreal, all told, and a good bit volatile as well in the face of some long odds and a decent amount of personal boredom. I am in what I might describe as a sort of fugue state…
It’s Good to Be Wrong
And now I’m back. From outer space. If by “outer space,” I mean “a cabin in the woods with the Garin Clan.” And I do. As far as Iowa goes, Henry Clay once said “I’d rather be right than President.”…