The longest day

Here’s my advice for finding a way to stretch out your day to the longest day possible. Step one: establish a body-numbing schedule by giving yourself jet lag. Step two: plan a flight though Dallas, because you can depend on the weather in Dallas to mess you up. Step three: have the last leg of [...]

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Don’t Worry Lady

Don’t worry lady seems to be required English mastery for Greek men who manage public transportation. I know this because I’ve been off playing, but I’ll be back soon in full force.
Please leave a comment with your first 50 words on the topic “don’t worry lady.”

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Giddy

The giddy music backing up the ad implied that I would be happy, happy, happy if I just used this product. I just watched Extreme Home Makeover and thought that the house revealed after the big “Move that Bus” moment would be much less impressive without the accompanyment of the huge orchestra playing a full-out [...]

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Extreme Adventure

He’d spent all his life working toward this week of extreme adventure on Everest. As the crew gathered at the hotel, Malcom met with the guides, the bearers, the unnamed people who made it possible for the more famous climbers to do what they came here to do.
They filed into the empty dining room for [...]

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Sunrise

Sunrise is the best part of the day for the early birds. It’s a reward for being the only person within miles who is awake, for the irritation of not being able to sleep in even when you want to.
The night owls might have an interesting sunset to enjoy, but those are crowded events. I [...]

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Dumpster Diving

The kid who leapt into the construction dumpster behind my house must have been a master gymnast. He couldn’t have been more graceful if the dumpster had been one of those “horses” that gymnasts jump over.
I heard the rustle of trash being shoved around in the dumpster and then the distinctive clanking of broken [...]

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The Sparrows

The sparrows! The sparrows! They flit around me like gnats. Do they think I’m Tippi Hedren? No, they want the sidewalk to themselves–to hell with the grass–they want asphalt!
Listen, you little birdbrains, if I give you the sidewalk, can I have the grass? Can I stomp through the dew in peace or will you besiege [...]

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Local

The farmer’s market features local food, which means the “carbon footprint” normal with most foods, transported over 1500 miles on average to reach my supermarket, is reduced by eating local food. Yet I stupidly don’t want to drive the extra blocks to the farmer’s market when there is a supermarket on almost every corner, thick [...]

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Overnighter

What do you think a woman enjoying an overnighter away from home would do for fun? How about a whole bunch of women? Would they cruise the bars looking for new beefcake? Nope. Would they get tickets to a hot new play? Nope. What they would do is have a pajama party in one of [...]

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Infidel

The facinating Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali is one of the most important books I’ve read in months. It’s the memoir of one Somali woman’s progress from submission to Islam to independent thinking and a life as a member of the Dutch Parliament and advocate for the rights of Muslim women.
When compared with The End [...]

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