I’m sitting at Hotel Brio, looking out upon my favorite horizon.
Yes sirebob, I am back in Nicaragua. I begin my position as a guide tomorrow, when 22 high school students stumble out of the Managua airport into the muggy landscape of Nicaragua, through which, accompanied by 3 other capable leaders, I will guide them.
The folks [...]
Entries from June 2009
June 27, 2009
a note with a view
June 24, 2009
spontaneous combustion
Friday evening, I drove to Hermosa Beach to visit a friend from high school and saw an SUV on fire, languishing in the shoulder of the northbound 405. And when I say fire, I mean a billowing bonfire: crackling, leaping flames and ominous gray smoke pouring into the LA night sky. So, naturally, everyone on [...]
June 11, 2009
tiger poetry
The mini raspberry pie called to me.
The Amish man had them lined up in rows according to flavor, each pie perfect and plump and individually sized. With a full beard and a hat tipped jauntily on his head, he sold me my very own red raspberry pie for three dollars and was about to wrap [...]
June 4, 2009
self-portrait
I received a welcome letter for my non-fiction writing class in Iowa. We have homework! I need to read three books in four days, so I went to the library today and jumped on that. Additionally, our first writing assignment. The prompt:
Your first assignment is to write a short (no more than two pages) self-portrait. [...]
June 4, 2009
june gloom
It’s June. I’m freezing. I think I’ve been cold since I arrived back to sunny Los Angeles four weeks ago, except it hasn’t been so sunny given that were in the midst of the so cutely named ‘June Gloom’. Instead, it’s been quite foggy and sometimes rainy. So, accordingly, I spend far too much time [...]
