It’s fall! It’s still warm in LA, but I turned up my air conditioning and made a massive pot of this soup. I’ll be eating it three meals a day for a week! YAY!

To make …

(Originally published 08/07/2007 on jousrnalstar.com)
Something changed in the seasons, just now.
And it’s not just because the week of 100 degree weather is over. Something just changed as distinctly as the flip of a switch…it …

(Originally published 9/02/06 on journalstar.com)
It’s the first Saturday in September and it’s cool, rainy, and grey. If you’re going to the football game, I hope you have a red raincoat.
It’s not a sprinkly rain and …

(Originally published 9/28/06 on journalstar.com)
One hot day this past June, I became extremely frustrated with a window in my house that wouldn’t open. It had been painted shut probably 25 years ago, but its screen …

(Originally published 11/22/06 on journalstar.com)
This morning people were just making me sad.
While walking my dog, I watched from across the street as an elderly man headed towards a newspaper machine. He was obviously unstable on …

Fall always comes all at once, like somebody flipped a switch and from that point on everything is cast in the light of autumn. Then all the sun and heat in the world couldn’t …

This is the tenth entry in my odd little side project, one hundred miles later. To figure out what the heck I’m doing, you can read the original entry.
one hundred miles later: appreciating brown
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