Month: November 2010

  • Long Light Days

    How I–snap! click! pop!—went, with what feels like no transition whatsoever, from staying home every night, not even going to yoga, to double-booking every weekend and having to schedule nights off from social stuff, is anyone’s guess, but all of a sudden all my conversations are about how I can make it to this one…

  • Soft Grey

    It’s cool and rainy and a little grey right now as I write this, but spring grey, soft grey; not the intractable closed-down iron of the winter that’s finally dripped and dragged to an end. Earlier it was short-sleeves-and-sandals weather, and I didn’t even need a hoodie as I got the season’s first cheap red…

  • Somewhere Else I’ve Never Been

    I just bought the last of the four internal flights I’ll take during my upcoming trip to Southeast Asia, from Siem Reap in Cambodia to Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. I’m going for just a little over two weeks, and I leave on Christmas Day. Something I notice as I get older is that I vacillate…

  • October 2010 Books

    October 1 Love In The Time of The Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez How many times have I read this? This is from the box of books I had sent from Seattle, which makes it likely that it’s my high school copy. On the front page my name is written and that of my best…