Saturday was my 32nd birthday. Paul drove me from one destination to another delivering events that he’d kept secret from me for weeks. The first surprise was a horseback ride along a sunny shoreline that bloomed with flowers, where we saw a man dangerously jump off an excited horse that sprinted into the bushes, and […]
I’ve never considered myself good at sports. I don’t care enough about competition and I fumble too much in most ball games. I was a bench warmer in volleyball, and for the life of me I can’t throw.
So when the teachers at a 6 year old’s karate birthday party invited me to join, I laughed […]
Imagine the happiest moment in your life. Try to exaggerate that happiness until you can feel yourself expanded like a balloon, tears streaming, and you see fuzzy radiance all around, and feel swathed in a blanket of formidable unconditional love.
Now, take this happy self to a beach, where you encounter a large group of other […]
Before anesthetics and dentistry, how did people keep good teeth? My guess is they didn’t. Thinking such thoughts on the way back from the dentist, I had an epiphany. Ohaguro was punk rock!
The ancient Japanese thought it fashionable to paint their teeth black (ohaguro). Why not, if their teeth were already bad? Instead of trying to […]
Kudos to WikiLeaks for relentlessly picking out the cancerous cells of society.
Lies fester. I’m talking about evil lies, not the “how do I look?” “great!” sort. Even if a lie is effectively covered up, the lie festers in the lier, in accomplices, in society that allows lies to breed. So better to rid of them lies. We should […]
Four Pauls in a Row
So I found out all about the mischief of the Easter Bunny last night. Aside from distant memories of painting easter eggs, (I think that was in Alaska, or did we ever celebrate Easter Mr. and Mrs. Brown?) my only other reference was the display of bunny chocolates and pretty baskets […]
