I was born and raised in the Southern California town of Rancho Cucamonga. I moved to San Diego for college, where I lived for ten years until the pandemic hit and I lost the means to afford the big city. My parents had been looking to move out of state for years, but the way the...
“Five times I received at the hands of the Jews the forty lashes less one. Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked; a night and a day I was adrift at sea; on frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from robbers, danger from m...
I asked, but the window was already banging closed. The Churchill was sumptuous and well lit and appeared ready to receive visitors. Through a window I could see people in suits in a bar, looking elegant and suave, like characters from a Noel Coward play. I hesitated in the shadows, ...
Tall, his skin the color of rich coffee, and dressed all in black, Jim looked like he was carved from a block of solid muscle. Logic said that at some point he must’ve been a baby and then a child, but looking at him one was almost convinced that some deity had touched the groun...
A true-born Englishman’s a contradiction, in speech an irony, in fact a fiction. It’s not just the disparate origins that are always the basis of ethnogenesis; the Englishman was always a political project, long before the Acts of Union. Today, July 12th, marks one thousand and ninety...
I am reminded of the day Cal was born – he was a planned C-section. We had gotten some snow overnight and Dan looked out the window, sighed heavily and lamented, “Well… I guess I’ll go shovel out the car.” I slowly looked over at him and said, “Thank you… I guess I’...
194. “I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry.”— Norman Wisdom 195. “If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry fortomorrowmorning, sleep late.”— Henny Youngman 196. “Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to...
But let’s also be clear. We write because we want our ego stroked. We want to be thought of as a great thinker and articulator. Yeah, yeah I was born to write and I didn’t choose to write, writing chose me, yada yada.
before turning into the disassembled juggernaut of a mature meme when it seemed like she could be the next president. Harris was never particularly likable, hitting record lows in vice presidential favourability ratings, no doubt compounded by biases against race and gender. The...
I still hold that families are the most important organization anywhere. I was born into a great one. But something is coming between us, barring open communication and the building of relationships. It is the Mormon church. Did you know that I mute what I really want to say on Facebook...