There’s a woman who dance walks around the Rose Bowl, and she really dances more than she walks. She usually wears sweats, a hoodie, and running shoes, and she listens to a walkman with over-the-head earphones. She’s middle aged, attractive, and does not pay the slightest bit of attention to all the walkers, runners (myself [...]
Entries from August 2009
August 17, 2009
family vacation
1. Seattle with Katie and Tyler.
Seattle sells five-star baked goods, including very large and wonderful chocolate chip cookies, but also has disturbingly short bathroom stalls in the public restrooms.
If you didn’t know, Seattle is also the home of the original Starbucks, which we visited. It also–apparently, so I’ve heard–has a lot of very good coffee [...]
August 6, 2009
new article!
By me. On Vagabondish.com: The Travelzine for Today’s Vagabond. (It’s currently the lead story on the homepage, so well, you know. That’s exciting.)
How to Embrace Reverse Culture Shock
August 4, 2009
on the fence
Saturday night in West Hollywood:
A tall guy in a yellow t-shirt squeezed by, dance walking to the bar. He yelled over the thumping music as he passed us, “tall girls are beautiful!”. Court and I looked at each other. What? I looked over my shoulder, but he had passed into the next room. After the DJ granted [...]
August 1, 2009
8/1/09
I bought a new journal last year. I’ve since moved on to another, since the first is now falling apart at the spine, it having been filled up with thoughts from a year, flapped open and closed again and again, and thrown not-so-gently to the bottom of backpacks and purses.
Well, as you may know or [...]
