Tourist Season
Somehow, tourist season has come a month and a half early for Seattle. I look around the galley now and can’t recognize a single face, no familiar passenger commuter in my sight. Are they all on …
Opening Day 2004
We got tickets from our friends Maki and Rich. I was so happy to go that I got here an hour early. I sat there with the day’s paper, reading up on the season while the ground crew sprayed down …
America is Catching On
Is there any way that George Bush can win in November? I just can’t imagine how. I just can’t imagine how anyone in his own party—aside from those who still work in his …
Our First Meeting: 7 Years Ago Yesterday
As it turns out, I met Wendy 7 years ago yesterday. We couldn’t remember for sure if our first meeting was on March 31 or April 1, but I checked the calendar for 1997 and found out it was 3/30 …
Family Point System
Wendy nested yesterday, and I love when she does that. “Nesting” is when she has some free time at home (one of her classes was rescheduled) and she uses the time to clean and reorganize …
Warm Spring Morning
And then, like that, it’s summer. Not really—it can’t last, but it is a wonderful way to wake up on a Monday morning. It’s warm, about 60 degrees already, and they say it will come …
Why I Write This
I finally got my home computer set-up corrected enough to be back online regularly with updates to this thing. While I was uploading a lot of old entries, I noticed that I’ve been doing this …
Wham, Bam
Overheard snippet of conversation, from plump West Indian woman in her mid 30s with short, bleached hair to another woman in her late 40s, “…but ‘wham bam’ for you may be …
Only Life is Holy
Last night, when I was in the garage, I had what felt like a spiritual awakening. I thought that the only thing I know for sure in this world is that life is holy and, thus, anything that makes death …
The Bone-Shaking Cough
I stayed home from work yesterday, sick. I have some sort of heavy chest cold—lots of wheezing and I was coughing so much that my chest muscles are sore. I checked e-mail a couple of times but, for …