It’s Sunday. Day Four of my Western Road Trip.
I won’t lie. I’m a bit worn out right now. I’ve already logged 350 driving miles (not counting the 60 mile trip to the airport) and four hours of flight time. I’m ready to relax, something that won’t happen until tomorrow at the earliest.
This is a gauntlet, [...]
Out there in the spotlight/You’re a million miles away
Every ounce of energy/You try to give away
As the sweat pours out your body/Like the music that you play
Later in the evening/As you lie awake in bed
With the echoes from the amplifiers/Ringin’ in your head
You smoke the day’s last cigarette,/Rememberin’ what she said
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I should start by [...]
I’m not supposed to be writing this. It’s 10 pm on Friday night and I’m sitting in Muncie, watching The I.T. Crowd, sending intermittent and flirtatious texts to a girl, and writing.
But I’m supposed to be in Cleveland. In a big, Greek household. With my friend, her husband, their kids and her family.
Until the snow [...]
I am lucky.
I flew to San Francisco on the first leg of the Year of Friends. There were few expectations. Just some plans. A small notion of what I’d hoped to find. It’s hard to track people down in their lives. People have a habit of getting lost.
Or so I thought.
It’s been my experience that [...]
I don’t want to say my friends are badass, but Jessie and Rob have one of only 1,000 of these cars in service in the world. The Tesla is a new generation of electric car.
Jessie produced the film Who Killed the Electric Car? and the forthcoming sequel (I didn’t know documentaries had sequels), Revenge of [...]
I’d planned on writing this post on the plane last night, but the best laid plans and all those things.
The travel delays and obstacles, though, brought new opportunities my way. I had the chance to sit next to a young woman from Charlotte on the flight from Memphis to San Francisco. We chatted about our [...]
Twelve years.
I try not to think of time anymore because it seems to be stretching out further and further, pulling me away from the moments when the important events in my life happened. I can’t escape the reality, though, that it’s been twelve years since I met the women I’m flying to San Francisco to [...]
The Year of Friends is off to a good start. I’ve already booked four different trips.
I’m still angling to put together my trip to St. Louis (the Steph), New York City (Jen, Lisa + Heather) and England/Germany (John + Aimee). I expect to book those within the next few weeks.
On top of that, I’m squeezing [...]
The first stop in The Year of Friends will be San Francisco. After months of conflicting schedules, I’ve finally found a window (and a cheap flight) to the Bay Area. It’s quick, considering the meandering travels from which I just returned, but I’m excited.
I’ll arrive late Thursday, February 4 and return home Sunday, February 7. [...]
Since I’m taking 2010 by the horns with The Year of Health, I thought it good to handle the other side of things as well.
One of the problems (I use this term loosely as it’s not really a problem) about being single is it’s very easy to get caught up in the dating game. I’ve [...]
