Monthly Archives: July 2004

People always compare things to “riding a bike.” In that, once you’ve learned, you’ve learned forever and you will never have to relearn. Tonight I borrowed my boss’s bike for a run to the bank. Holy cow, batman, it was … Continue reading →

Tonight I limped home from the gym and paused outside of a number of apartments. Not just to try and tweek my back into the right position, but to hear snippets of the Kerry nomination acceptance speech floating out of … Continue reading →

Merz Apothecary is my local neighborhood natural store and home to hundreds and hundreds of products. Turns out they have a website with an easy to spell name. http://www.smallflower.com Go there. This is where I bought some preggie pops (not … Continue reading →

Tonight I did something I have NEVER done in my entire life. I changed tables at a restuarant because I didn’t want to sit next to the loud teenagers. A group that grew from two to six was at a … Continue reading →

I just listened to Barak Obama’s keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention. Wow! How lucky are we that he is from Illinois? Great speech, perhaps even more than soundbites? He didn’t wait for applause and serve it up slowly, … Continue reading →

Man, I haven’t seen a day like this since April at the shop. Slow, quiet, s-l-o-w… We even went so far as to take a dinner/computer break and leave the shop for a couple hours to work offsite. So slow. … Continue reading →

We are standing on a cliff above the Atlantic Ocean. A gust of wind unwraps my blue knitted scarf from my neck. He grabs the scarf and wraps it around my neck and we head back to the safety of … Continue reading →

Yesterday I finished reading Love in the time of cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. It is probably the fourth of fifth time I’ve read it and I love it. But it made me dream an incredibly vivid dream. I won’t … Continue reading →

Last night I went to a barbecue armed with ice cream. Even though it was a Bring Your Own, Grill Your Own, I hoped that ice cream could be exchanged for someone’s leftover hamburger or polish. It was an even … Continue reading →

Last night as he dropped me off, my friend Ben told me to check a website about John Kerry. It was a seriously long name, that I thought was probably fake. I asked, “Do you spell douche D-O-U-C-H-E?” “Yeah,” Ben … Continue reading →