• a thousand hours

    She put her head on his shoulder. Her tears soaked his T-shirt, her sobs shook the bed. “I hate that things are like this,” she said. “Me too,” he said. He wasn’t able to cry. He desperately wanted to, but the tears wouldn’t come. “It’s so unfair. We’ve done nothing to deserve this.” She clutched…

  • A “News fast”

    Some good advice, just sent to me by my mom. I love you, mom. 🙂 Tip: Mental Clarity: Taking a News Fast Been feeling stressed out after watching or reading the news lately? A “news fast” – avoiding news on the television, newspaper or the Internet for a few days or even a week –…

  • keep going

    Most of the day today, I’ve been fighting off a brutal headache. (I feel like there’s a knife in my left eye . . . but I’ve been listening to Miles Davis do ‘Round About Midnight while I sit in an empty and otherwise quiet house. There are mighty thunderheads building above the San Gabriel…

  • Thank you.

    The inbox is filled to overflowing with encouragement, support, a couple of really old interviews I gave when I was a 14 year-old dork, and some good advice. I just wanted to take a moment and say thank you. It’s really cool that so many people . . . well . . . care.

  • stuff.

    For the last month, (and most of summer, I think) this site has sucked. It has sucked hard. I can’t write for shit, and when I have written, it’s been . . . well, shit. I’ve always made an effort to be honest on this site. Regardless of how embarrassed or humiliated, sad or elated…