pointless

I’ve traded in running for swimming at the gym lately. I find it’s the cooler alternative with less post-workout sweat issues while riding back to work in the 110 degree desert sun. Too, it soothes me. Maybe it’s the merciful near-weightlessness the...

what’s in a name?

A game I enjoy playing with R is “would you still love me if…” It can be anything: I looked like this (here I make an absurd face involving crossed eyes); I talked like this (some terrible twang, accent, or tone of voice); I had a mullet; my hair was long and...

whiplash + road rash

What does it mean when you get hit by two cars in eight days? Statistically, I’m guessing it shouldn’t happen. Not to one person. I’ll go further and say that it should be impossible for that person to take hits as hard as these and come out...

am I in your light?

I went to the Lyric Opera House last night. The performance was both spectacular and grueling. Spectacular lighting, set design, and choreography. The movements of the bodies and the way the forms were lit and positioned on stage was mesmerizing at times. There was...

it’s all true

It seems arbitrary that this day of all days marks a new year. Why doesn’t every day mark a new year? Every day is exactly one year away from the same day one full rotation of the earth around the sun ago, so what makes this one so remarkable? It concludes the...