I was a child when Video Games became a thing. The Christmas when my parents got us an Atari 2600 has become a mythical time in our lives. I remember bleary dry eyes and joystick thumb from playing until we dropped. Even with advent of the screen, we played outside all the … [Read more...]
The Road Taken
When I was 24 I moved from New Haven to Pasadena. I packed everything I wanted to bring with me into a bunch of big boxes and shipped them via UPS to the site of my new unseen apartment on Cordova Street, blocks from Colorado, a mile from CalTech. It would have been romantic and … [Read more...]
My Happy Place
Do you have a happy place? A place you imagine when the yoga teacher tells you to close your eyes and empty your mind of all thoughts? I know, that's breaking the rules. You're supposed to empty your mind, not fill it with an image, but it helps me to imagine my happy place as a … [Read more...]
A Writer’s Fairy Tale
Once upon a time, I had the perfect writer's day. My alarm woke me up at 5:45 AM in the middle of a dream. Or I woke naturally when the sun glinted off the mirror and into my eyes. Or the cat stood in the doorway and meowed like the world was ending. I turned my head and … [Read more...]
Do You Take Bitcoin?
Raise your hand if you, like me, still don't understand what Bitcoin is. I tried to read "Bitcoin For Dummies," or a version of it that I found on the internet. In fact, it was something like Blockchain for Dummies because Blockchain is apparently the thing that makes … [Read more...]
Chick’s Drive In
Chick's Drive In was a hot dog, hamburger, and fried seafood restaurant on the beach in my hometown. It was not, in fact, a drive-in restaurant, at least it wasn't when I started working there in the late 1980's. I was 16, and if you don't count delivering papers for a few years … [Read more...]
