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This Free Bird

The Growth Chronicles, Part II

I just came in from watering the lawn, a harrowing task in the California drought. Is it a watering day? How much is enough vs too much? Will a neighbor water shame me? When we considered moving into this house one of the first…

June 23, 2016

Shake the dust off your paws

The Bachelorette is on tonight at 9pm. Against my better judgment I am thinking about watching it. Why, you ask? Oh gee I don’t know. Maybe something about bringing the old (way old, before the strokes old) into the new or just stirring up…

May 24, 2016

romeo, romeo wherefore art my levi’s

I have this recurring dream. In it I’m reunited with my favorite pair of Levi’s. The ones my brother abandoned and I took over, wearing on repeat through nights at Barry T’s (for all you old school YEG-ers) and days slogging to Romance Linguistics,…

May 19, 2016