At a stoplight yesterday I pulled up behind a car with an “Ouck Fbama” bumper sticker, and I just about lost my shit. There might have been an incident of road rage, if not for Sagar being in the car, and his willingness to call me on it. And, it’s bothered me since–why was I […]
Going home in invariably weird. Or, at least feels weird. Inevitably, the conversation, at some point, turns to “how weird is it that …” How weird is it that Brandon is married? How weird is that we all have real jobs (–no, NO ONE has said that yet). How weird is it that so-and-so has […]
A list: what makes Scottsdale unlike anywhere else I’ve lived: Nobody cleans their own house. Or mows their own lawn Nobody changes their own oil–much less does their own auto repair There’s a dry cleaners in every shopping complex There are no local businesses. Only chains. Restaurants being the sole exception There are no good […]
A insolent disregard for mountains is one thing the Four Peaks will cure you of. Me of, anyway. Showed up at the Lone Pine trailhead around 9:00 am on Sunday, feeling rather hung over. Didn’t know much about the Four Peaks, save that there were four of them, with only a trail to the first. […]
This election is going to be a hard one for me. I have no freaking clue who to vote for–such is the tumult of political views at the moment. I take that back. I have SOME clue. For example: voting against Jan Brewer (any EVERY other politician soiled by HB1070) is a no-brainer. But what […]