Category: Blog

The other day, an acquaintance that was considering playing floor hockey on our Recreational league team, wrote to tell us that she was having seconds thoughts. This person, a Christian, thought that our team name– The Jesus Cobras– was potentially insulting and offensive, and needed some time to figure out if she wanted to play…

On Monday, after a party we had on the weekend, Rachelle and I took about three big bags of empties out onto the sidewalk. As I was turning away to head back up to the apartment, I heard a woman yell, “I can’t believe it! I’m in fucking heaven!!” The woman was a firecracker, full…

Today I have given the Blog over to Heidi, our 3 year-old Miniature Dachshund.   Four-eyed-two-legged treat giver very, very old dog! Can no longer chase ball but just watch, look on his old dog face suggest he in past, remembering day when he used to chase ball. Now when he sleep I hear him…

Over lunch, a friend spoke of the time in his life that he felt most at peace. He thought it might have been when he was a boy, and alone, would spend hours in his summer afternoons building makeshift damns on the creek near his family farm. Using twigs and stones and other found objects,…

It’s a beautiful sunny day, one that offers the limitless promise of the future, and the entire city has emerged into sunlight. They stand on street corners and look up at the sky, humming. Rollerblading! Hoops! Hopscotch! Flying a kite or painting a bike! Everything feels like a good idea on this day. Two girls…

My dear Lord: I am so terribly sorry. I beg you, in all of your beauty, glory and infinite compassion, to please forgive me. I was feeling old and vulnerable on my birthday, and I guess a little bit angry, too. I am ashamed to admit that I took to the drink, and it was…

Usually when I get drunk, I write a letter to a Hollywood celebrity, but last night, as it was on the eve of my birthday and I was almost immobilized by the crushing weight of my ever-accelerating mortality and the subsequent depression that caused, I decided to write a letter to the biggest celebrity there…

Chatroulette, as most people probably know by now, is a website that pairs random strangers for webcam-based conversations that include both video and text. At any point during the interaction, either participant can leave, springing off to a more promising one, by hitting a button that initiates another random connection. The idea is brilliant, I…

  I came across this passage the other day: “If you can think of times in your life that you’ve treated people with extraordinary decency and love, and pure uninterested concern, just because they were valuable as human beings. The ability to do that with ourselves. To treat ourselves the way we would treat a…