this morning, i felt a pang. a man i have known for so long has been absent from my life in the last few months. by choice. i haven’t picked up the phone to talk to him, bullshit about life, about the evils of the corporate world and about the joys of family because i [...]
Archive for November, 2007
valley of the ear’s delight
Posted in music, tagged emotion, gym, high fidelity, melody, moment, music, rediscovery, songs, workout on November 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
i’m having a high fidelity moment. for those music afficionados, you know exactly what i mean. the idea of using music to communicate a feeling, an emotion has always appealed to me. someone somewhere has already felt that same experience so why try to reinvent the wheel with the description when there already is one [...]
gobble, gobble
Posted in everyday, tagged baby fat, christmas, dinner, food, holiday, mexican, pozole, thanksgiving on November 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
so its here. that time of the year where all your hard work throughout can potentially slip. its the holiday season, or as i like to say, its food season. i have always related this time of year with the food we eat. my family has always used the holidays as an excuse to eat [...]
shakey voice and trembling hands
Posted in everyday, tagged childhood, elementary school, growing up, principal, public speaking, spark on November 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
it was a strange one today. about a month ago, i was at an assignment at a local elementary school when the principal said to me, ‘you wouldn’t consider coming to talk about yourself and your career to our kids, would you?’ she caught me off guard, to say the least, but i couldn’t refuse [...]
attention span
Posted in everyday, tagged attention span, california, cowardly lion, dorothy, earthquake, freaked, halloween, lincon ave, news coverage on November 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
ok, so i can’t ignore the fact that we have had a semi-major earthquake here this week and an aftershock that shook us today. this is not funny. i mean, yes. we live in california. yes, we signed up for this. yes, we have been drilled since we were kids to drop and duck under [...]
