Tag: Matters At Hand

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Work Mode

One day over the summer, while my sister was visiting, I had a brilliant suggestion to save her...

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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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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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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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Falling off the Bandwagon

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

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Changing Looks

It had seemed like an eternity, like decades upon decades had passed. When I turned 26 I was...

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Food Tour, Los Angeles edition

When I first started thinking about my trip to L.A. and planning it all out, a few thoughts ran...

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A Simple Life

Before now, before cancer, before any of this (but not so very long ago) there was my life in Los...

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