Month: September 2009

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Pedalboats, Ponds & Wicked

2 weeks on, 1 week off, lather, rinse and repeat — that is how Alan’s chemotherapy...

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Hoops Are Cathartic

On TV, cancer patients are forever clinging to shiny white toilet bowls, their hair slick with...

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Albion Castle, San Francisco

Well, now, here we are, and it’s Friday again. Since Fridays are best for dreaming about what...

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Sing Like No One’s Listening (Except When People Are Listening)

There is a wall in our bedroom that separates our half of the duplex from the neighbor’s...

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Near Naked Man Escapes Heat, Frightens Neighbors

Today is the first day of fall, and as much as I love summer, I find myself looking forward to the...

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Together

Saturday night found me driving up the bay to San Francisco to meet a room full of strangers in a...

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The Worst Assassin

I first discovered that Irene sometimes left her front door unlocked some years ago when I’d go...

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How Do You Really Feel

Whenever someone asks how Alan is doing, I’m never sure what to say, and specifically, how...

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Leifsdottir Fall 2009

The other day I was walking through Nordstrom because I remembered that I had a few extra thousand...

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Falling off the Bandwagon

While walking around downtown earlier this year, down a not so often traveled sidewalk, I noticed...

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