She picked the seat closest to the window after much thought. It was empty so she could pick what she wanted and the decision was too much for her. She stared into nothingness. She was giving her brain a break. She needed that. Then he came […]
I am jubilant. I am ecstatic. I am jumping for joy. After five months of commuting every other weekend between San Francisco and Los Angeles, I will be finally packing up my San Francisco place and moving down permanently to Los Angeles. Ok. Let me backtrack just […]
I feel like I must utter the phrase “what’s this” over 100 times a day. First off, I have to say that quite often to my son. He was recently very eager to show me a drawing he had made. I looked at it and then had […]
I am sitting in the so-called quiet zone in the American Airlines lounge. I don’t sit there because I have a dire need for quiet. I can readily work with a ton of noise around me. As a matter of fact when I am working from home, […]
Back in 1981, a little known group (ha!) named Duran Duran released a song called Planet Earth. I have liked that song despite it not being one of the more widely listened and downloaded Duran Duran songs. “look now, look all around, there’s no sign of life voices, […]
Last week before I headed out to the airport, I spent three hours in the morning cleaning up my apartment. At one point I stopped shaking my head at myself wondering why I was taking so much time to clean an apartment that would be empty […]
It’s my birthday and I will not cry because I do not want to. I want to be happy and stay happy. It’s my birthday and I have given myself the day off. Well, rather, I have allowed myself to work from home so that I […]
A few weeks back I was one of the first to board my flight and I sat there watching everyone get on. My row-mate made a few jokes and I nodded enough to feign interest. At one point, I saw a young woman with two other […]
Did you know that taxi cabs have a vomiting service fee. More often than not, the fee is $50? This is now pretty standard. Every single cab I took in Chicago recently had the vomit service fee prominently displayed. One of my Uber drivers was telling […]
I am a New Yorker. Apparently that means something to many people. There are so-called New York values and there are Woody Allen movies. I like to say that New York values consist of loving public transportation (being green), being highly efficient (we eat while we walk) […]