FF – Relative Happiness

From GDR's Shataram: ... the size of our happiness is inversely proportional to the size of our house. 

No. 008

Drove the 2011 VW Jetta back from Tomales Bay yesterday afternoon with the windows down, sun beaming, and my CD of Amy Winehouse's first album, Frank, playing on full. I had spent Saturday night with 11 great friends on a beach in Point Reyes. It was a 2-mile kayak upwind to get to. We played spike ball, …

FF: Figures

Went to see Jessie Reyes perform at the Rickshaw Stop on 6/29. Her set was short, but not on emotion - figures.

FF: Final Days

I’ll bet you wouldn’t even miss me if I died, she said. Depends on if you’d been grumpy in those final days, I said & she tried to look sad but I saw the smile anyway. ...from the great, Story People. Check them out. https://www.storypeople.com/2013/12/16/final-days/

No. 007

The combination of: a) restless from living in a wealthy introverted suburbia (Palo Alto, CA), and b) uncertainty about the longevity of my time here in the US, had fueled a desire within me to shake things up a bit. I didn't want to return to Canada without having truly lived in San Francisco. I had …

No. 006

Well. That didn't pan out. But I'm back. One my favourite grandfather's sayings is, "a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all." My excuse . . . I was informally diagnosed with PLOBPS, prioritizing life over blog posting syndrome. Which I'll admit is one hell of a poor excuse, but it's truly all I can …