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Theo and Marci: Trauma and a Second Chance
Theodore Meets Marci Theodore Williams stood in line at the public library when he realized the librarian who would most likely help him was the wrong librarian. Theodore asked the person behind him if he wanted to take his place in line. As it turned out, he still ended up with the wrong librarian. The… Read more
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Fighting over the letter “W.” What’s next?
While I no longer follow Brodie Brazil since he no longer calls Athletics games since they left Oakland, and I no longer follow the A’s since they exited the Bay Area, I found this piece in my YouTube queue the other day that Brazil does a great job of exposing how petty professional sports can… Read more
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Hearts & Minds: Then and Now–a Repost
This 2017 post was from one of my favorite bloggers, Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist. It is now unavailable. I rediscovered it through WordPress’ Throwback Edition. Reviewing it depressed me, so I thought I would share the love. When I think about Peter Davis’ film, it is not too hard to replace North Vietnam with… Read more
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Walking Into Closed Cafés: A Six-Sentence Story
Jonathan wished he had an internal clock that would tell him to stop before he did it, but he didn’t come with that feature in utero; when he was older, he never saw an aftermarket feature he could buy and have a surgeon implant one. How often he walked into a coffee shop or restaurant,… Read more
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My blog isn’t very popular these days
Q: How do you write what people actually want to read? View all responses A: Well, for starters, don’t write stuff like my last post! Read more
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The Pink Beach Cruiser
Michael was about halfway through his Sunday run on the Sacramento River bike trail when he saw a woman in distress on a pink beach cruiser ahead of him. A flock of wild turkeys was blocking the trail, and one—most likely a male—was attacking her or her bike. She tried in vain to kick the… Read more
