Suprise Me

"Uh, John," I asked, "have you ever driven in snow?" "No," he replied. "Is that a problem?" Read More

I’ve never been much of a tourist. From my days residing in the Haight-Ashbury to my thin-air existence in the Colorado Rockies, from my street musician days in North Beach to my current residence under the Hollywood sign (nope, not homeless), I’ve been an objet du tourism more frequently than I’ve been a tourist. Nothin’… Read More

Looking over the ways I have celebrated the New Year, it’s hard to remember why it used to be such a big deal. Read More

My most memorable date was my first date with Garth (see Found), but my second most memorable date was my very first date ever. It was the first time I was allowed to go out with a boy, in a car, at night. His name was Rusty, and yes, he had red hair. He picked… Read More

Flower Power Read More

  “You can’t do that to another girl!” Alex was really pissed. I didn’t understand why she was pissed at me, exactly. It had been her boyfriend’s idea to walk in the summer moonlight and make out in some neighbor’s yard, not mine. It would have remained a regrettable secret, but Alex (not her real… Read More

On January 19, 1995, I set off on a trip to Kazakhstan to help find ways in which American computer technology could help improve the safety and/or efficiency of the coal mining industry in that country, which had recently become an independent state, no longer under the domination of the Soviet Union.  I left Columbus… Read More

Somehow, we turned into a street and found ourselves in Old Dacca, where we clearly didn’t belong.  Read More

Both our mothers believed in miracles. Read More

The more computer savvy I became, the less contact I had with those little humans who mattered so much to me. Read More