Yesterday morning, I got a late start, and had to be in Arleta for my second shot at 2 pm, but there was still time for a short hike north o...

What a long strange trip it's been.  Vaccine #2. 4/23/21. CVS, Arleta.

How to celebrate pandemic birthday #2: Last year, when pandemic was new, I took the day off work and walked around Burbank. This felt scar...

I work all week, 9-7, 9-8, even 9-9. I wake early in the morning, glance at my phone, delete things I don’t need, tell myself I'm gettin...

I just read a friend's post about what specific songs evoke in us as individuals, moments that are so meaningful to us, to me, just to o...

Peak pandemic moment. Yesterday, I took a rental car to a storage complex in an industrial part of North Hollywood, where a guy texted me an...

It's hard for me to look at photos from ten years ago. My plan, made before the pandemic and work promotion, would have put me on the ea...

I rented a car for vaccine week for maximum flexibility, which it turned out I didn’t need.  But I’ve still got the car and am making the mo...

Here's a closing parentheses to go alongside the opening parentheses of the routine colonoscopy I enjoyed on March 16, 2020. And so it e...

I bought two pounds of coffee beans today. I will stay in Burbank until they are gone and then I'll go somewhere interesting with my new...