life
October 20, 2009
- I would say my life is boring, yet hectic, alive--yet dead at the same time. I make promises to myself and most of the time I have those ideas and insprations shot down with my metaphorical shot gun. I even entered the NaNoWriMo Writing contest that begins next month. The goal is to write a 50,000 word piece of fiction by midnight on Novemeber 30th. I am now having second thoughts-- ...
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October 17, 2009
- ``The last time they blew in that direction,'' the Captain said, staring up a pole at several nautical flags, ``we had that terrible earthquake up the coast.'' ``Are you saying we should expect an earthquake?'' ``I'm simply telling you,'' he said, ``that the last time the wind . . . ''I had – twenty years ago yesterday – driven into the little California harbor town of Moss Landing. The ...
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October 17, 2009
- My trainer, John, is married to a gorgeous ex-model who knows how to cook, which might be why John talks more about food than almost anyone I've ever met. "She made a roast chicken stuffed with lots of garlic last night, and it was awesome," he told me. "So I'm rather pungent today."He was. He reeked of garlic. It wafted from his pores and through the air to where I stood ...
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October 16, 2009
- Odd how these things happen. Wednesday I came across a youtube video by Simon Morris, ``The Literary Tourist: John Steinbeck's California,'' '' on Steinbeck and Cannery Row in Monterey, California.It includes a moving interview of Kalisa Moore who, as a restauranteur and indomitable free spirit, has often been connected with Steinbeck and the Row, though she had only one encounter with the ...
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October 16, 2009
- 50/50 custody is weird: a regular and overnight switch from the warm rich chaos of multiple small boys to...silence and solitude, reading and writing, social life. It's like two different lives lived at the same time, or two different countries found in the same place. I don't think I've discovered a way to balance everything, but I'm beginning to suspect that balance, if not impossible, is a ...
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October 13, 2009
- On July 30th, 2009 a stranger took over the body of Billy-Joe, it started a new saga in a life that has already fought through a lot of adversity. Billy-Joe has a new wife, son and some animals. We were offered a home back in Billy-Joe’s hometown. So with that it was five loads to move up. We did it, then it happened. July 29th, 2009 Billy-Joe suffered a stroke. This time with ...
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October 12, 2009
- Gloria was astride me as I lay on my stomach. My face was in the hollow on the hard massage table looking at the floor. She had decorously covered me and slipped the towel in sections. She used a non-greasy lotion…the room was dimly lit with flickering candles.“Hurting?” she asked in her lilting Oriental accent.“No…” I mumbled.She de-stressed the muscles on my back all the way down to ...
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October 11, 2009
- Another blog post about the eastern concept of "Surrender."There seems to be two extremes in human cultures, especially western culture. On the one hand we have people who are so completely self obsessed that -- even without knowing they are doing it -- they simply use others to get what they want or what they think they need. On the other hand are the people who give until it hurts, ...
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October 9, 2009
- The other day someone said the phrase I keep hearing repeated more and more—“you’re middle-aged.”At 35, I suppose a case could be argued. The grey hairs glint in the light. Extra weight clings tenaciously to my tummy. I see lines and wrinkles where the skin was once soft and smooth. My body shows the effects of aging—a process millions of people throughout thousands of years have tried ...
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October 9, 2009
- Let’s start with a quick quiz. What do you think the following might mean? 残生 (zansei) to remain + life 生残 (seizan) life + to remain To block the answers, I’ll share a photo I took in Los Angeles on Sawtelle Boulevard, a Japanese area that unfortunately extends for just two blocks:More ...
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