Something good in Baghdad

I've been in California for a full year now, but I haven't taken advantage of it -- I kept thinking when I moved here that I'd be running around to all the things to see, the mountains and beaches and whatnot.

This morning on the way to work I was listening to 80s on 8 — don’t judge — when “It’s Raining Men” started playing. This got me thinking in a literal way… what would actually  [more...]

Yesterday I spent the day in the yard — mowing, trimming, edging, raking, hosing — and it suddenly occurred to me: my little piece of California is something like 3,000 square feet, a miniscule fraction of  [more...]