Just Another Day at the Cafe
In both an attempt to A. get out of the house more often, and B. be one those cool arty bohemian types, I have been recently going down to my local coffeehouse and trying to write there. I adore my...
View ArticleValley of Heart’s Delight
Pretty much everyone knows that Silicon Valley used to be called the Valley of Heart’s Delight, used to be full of orchards, and that the farmers all slowly vanished once the computers came in. There...
View ArticleDrive
I had business to do in San Francisco the other day, so like thousands of other people do every morning I got in my car and fought my way up the peninsula, fought my way through the smog and the...
View ArticleThe Weed
We first moved into the house in November, when the yard was grey and damp and The Weed wasn’t growing. We had no idea what horrors were yet to befall us. The Weed started to sprout in February, and...
View ArticleEvil Bushy-Tailed Invaders from Mars
The other day I was awakened in the middle of the night to a banging and clanging noise. I rolled over. All the lights were on. The living room lights, the outside lights. Eric was out of bed. Then, a...
View ArticleThe Cheese Stands Alone
Explanation: I have a friend who works for a startup in the valley. One day a mandatory all hands meeting was called at this company so that HR could give every single employee copies of the book “Who...
View ArticleSnowblind
A few years back, soon after we moved up into the Santa Cruz Mountains, I woke up one January morning just before the sun came up, and something was different. There was a strange blue-white glow...
View Articlethey’re heeeeeere
The tree people are here. They come with big cars and fear and poor load securing skills. Every year we hope for early winter storms to keep them from coming or to drive them away. Every year the...
View ArticleThe Instructional Design of Recipes, by way of The Hand of Glory (part one)
A week or so back my friend Richard Kadrey posted this image to his Instagram: Family fun for the holidays: how to make a Hand of Glory. A photo posted by Richard Kadrey (@rkadrey) on Nov 19, 2015 at...
View ArticleIf My Cats Could Talk
(A tribute to/riff on If My Dog Could Talk from small victories) Cat: WAT DOING Me: Nothing. I just stood up. Cat: KITCHEN YAY Me: Yes, I’m literally walking just six feet away into the — Cat: FOOD YAY...
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