Today I am taking part in an American phenomena which borders on satanic but at the very least is masochistic: the Day After Thanksgiving Sale. It is 6:23am, and I am waiting for my sister to finish getting ready so we can go spend money like good upstanding citizens concerned about boosting fourth quarter earnings. I feel compelled to commemorate ( Read more... )

Today is my one year anniversary with Tuscany ( Read more... )

Tuscany flew home with me to San Francisco the other weekend for my mother's birthday. I ended up using my airline miles to get us tickets since airfares have been increasingly more expensive. Whereas a couple years ago, I could fly home for about $109 roundtrip, these days I am lucky when fares are under $200 ( Read more... )

Considering I have not been on here for such a long time, one would think... even I would think, that I would have ever so much to show for it ( Read more... )

This weekend Tuscany and I part ways: he flies off to Iowa and I go to San Francisco. I think I win in that postcard contest ( Read more... )

I am sitting at my favorite neighborhood coffee shop, the distinctly non-Starbucked Fresh Pot down the street from my apartment. it is technically walking distance but in this weather, cold/wet, the convenience of driving the 20 blocks seems more fitting ( Read more... )

In honor of the biggest badass pimpin' jaimeee who taught me how to HTML my way into making links, i offer this.

Just a few days before I am about to head back off into the world, I guess I should muse a bit over my birthday holiday in Florida.

After getting re-routed three times, we finally landed in Orlando at about midnight. jaimeee and her man met us and graciously ignored our haggard all day traveling appearance and whisked us back to their chalet. If ever ( Read more... )

The older I get the more I learn to live with disappointment. It used to be that I would only let myself be disappointed with myself or at least internalize and find guilt or blame within for other people's actions. Here lately I realize that people let me down and it is one of the saddest things to accept the significance of that ( Read more... )

There is a 14 year old girl from France who just signed a book deal with a first run of 65K copies in the US. She is already a hit in Europe having sold tens of thousands of copies of her book, "The Prophecy of Stones ( Read more... )