53 Degrees on the 20th of July
[Near Arch Rock, July 2010.] OK. It’s pretty cold here. It’s cold and this morning when I went for a pre-7 a.m. run I could …
Things to Love About Summer
[Near Barre, Vermont, June 2010.] An ongoing list in no particular order: 1. Days at the beach 2. Light nearly ’til 9p 3. Soft serve …
Enter 2010
The new decade slipped in quietly last night but no less deliciously than any other year — after my brother departed for points East, I …
For Mon Frere, on his Anniversaire
Dear Kurt, Today you are thirty years on this earth — thirty! As a wise friend told me last year when I turned 30, you …
Getting There
It’s not exactly proper soup season yet here in San Francisco but it sure is starting to feel like it — this coming weekend the …
Quiet Days
I think I have a Problem. All I want to do lately — occasional ridiculous Saturday nights out notwithstanding — is lie on the couch …
Delicious Is This
[Note: still marooned in fog, though a weekend out-of-town beckons with promises of sun in the afternoons and temperatures in the 70s.] Despite the chilly …
Pizza + Root Beer Float
Yesterday was pretty much my ideal day. I woke up in time to make my yoga class — and Muni didn’t thwart me after all …