This morning I got up fairly promptly (if 9 am can be considered prompt), hopped through the shower and got out of the apartment. I’ve discovered that if I’m going to have any hope of getting some writing done by noon that I have to leave my apartment, or a constellation of small tasks [...]
I got out of class early tonight and headed over to Trader Joe’s to pick up some basic food items that keep things running over here in apartment 2024. Wandering through the store, I tossed ground turkey, lettuce, frozen spinach and Basque Shephard’s Cheese (a 100% sheep’s milk cheese to which I am positively [...]
I got on the elevator today just after noon. There was a woman on there already, descending from a higher floor, wearing a full-length fur coat, nice leather gloves, sleek sunglasses and a wooly purple hat with flowers that looked like someone’s color-blind grandmother had made. The hat did not go with the rest of [...]
Friday night was a two stop evening. First was a Unitarian happy hour at Bob and Barbara’s, followed by dinner and hanging out at Seth’s apartment. Because of this, instead of walking down to the bar like I normally would have, I drove there, planning on leaving directly from there to go to Seth’s. Driving [...]
I recently met a Unitarian minister who said that most ministers tend to give the same sermon over and over again. It might be called different things, and might come at the topic in hundreds of ways, but essentially there is one area that is most near to each minister’s heart and so they [...]
Today, for the first time in my life, I found myself wondering what will happen to my books when I die. When I inherited my apartment, most of my grandparents’ stuff came along with it, including hundreds of books. Over the past five years, I’ve given most of them away, although a few [...]
I got into Portland last night, just a few minutes before midnight. It was a long, turbulent flight, and my rowmate was a Christian pastor who believes that the Bible is the infallible word of God. That’s not the perspective I espouse and so we spent more than two hours telling each other what we [...]
When I have a window seat, and I can do it without being too obnoxious, I like to take pictures from airplanes. Leaving Portland, I frequently do it in the hopes that I will snatch a shot of Mount Hood like this one.
Friday morning the clouds were riding thick and high, so the mountains [...]
This afternoon I walked into the Wawa at the corner of 20th and Market to grab a sandwich and a pint of coffee milk before heading home and burying myself in school work. As I made my way back to the dairy case, I noticed a elderly woman slowly walking with a 20 ounce [...]
Last night, in the space between sleep and awake I had a moment of lucid imagination. I saw myself walking into a room of women. One woman had a stomach that stuck a good three feet out in front of her, while another was dowdily dressed, meek and timid. One had facial features that were [...]
