Tonight I am grateful for the Internet, as without it I would not have attended my friends’ wedding today because I wouldn’t have met them. As I am exceedingly poor at distinguishing the subtleties of the theory of causality, I shouldn’t make suppositions like this one: I wouldn’t even be in California were it not [...]
Nine years ago, I had no idea what to expect. I moved to San Francisco, sight unseen, with a tenuous job and a temporary apartment. Through perseverance and luck, I was able to parlay a series of complications into a stable life in one of the most idyllic places in this country, although that last [...]
Exultant, drunk with the little victories: remembering to bring a homemade muffin only slightly less glorious than right out of the oven, flashing my usually-cloistered bus pass to prove my city citizenship, consolidating paper trails into one gleaming paper superhighway. The hangover is quick, severe. Blurry comes into focus with a “fuck you bitch” and [...]
This is a subject I have struggled with for most of my life, so it is a challenge to write about it in terms of gratitude. However, I don’t want this exercise to solely be about enumerating all these fantastic things that anyone would be ridiculous not to want. Over the years, I have sought [...]
This is another one of those topics that, as a younger person, I would have called a “no duh”. Of course I am grateful for my family! Through luck I am related to a whole bunch of terrific people, especially my parents. (Neither one likes being in photographs, or I would post them here.) I [...]
