Essays

This past Sunday I went to the Compline Service at St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral. Compline is an end of day service that consists of psalms, short passages from scripture and …

When an agave plant blooms, it is basically telling the world it is ready to die. After weathering alternating cycles of drought and rain for 10 to 25 years (or …

I just finished a 2,600-mile road trip, and I am completely spent. But it’s a good kind of tired. The kind that tells you that you’ve done an excellent job …

It’s hard to steal away the time to write while you’re on vacation, but it’s Tuesday and I made a commitment to write and see what comes of it. I …

There is an Asian man who sits in the Starbucks in the highrise that I work at. I presume he’s homeless mostly because he’s there every single day, all day …

I am reading David Sedaris’s book, Theft by Finding right now. It’s comprised of little snippets of his diary between 1977-2002 and per usual, it’s hilarious. And it’s also filling …

I was in Portland, Oregon, over the weekend and had lunch at corner bistro I used to dine at when I was 19 years old. It’s a block or so …

Eleven years ago, I started my first blog, called Bacon is My Enemy. I was trying to lose weight and thought I would blog about it as a way of …