For the Fans
I want to give my thanks to everyone for everything, and as a token of my appreciation, I want to offer back to you all my good and bad habits as magnifying priceless jewels, wish-fulfilling […]
Everywhere, And Not a Drop to Drink
n the decade Samuel Pepys kept his famous diary, he mentions his wife taking just 1 single bath, an act he mocks. After 3 days, however, Pepys reluctantly washes himself in order to be allowed […]
The Package Deal
Normally I enjoy reading stories about the villains of the recession, those unscrupulous cads who prey on people�s debts and desperations. Tales of their exploits and comic-book capture have a redemp…
Making the Cover
It isn’t every day that you get to work with a wonderful group of people who have so much synergy that it almost feels effortless. The day that I photographed the new cover of my […]
Spork
We walk into a toy store and there is an ongoing battle of pink versus blue. I’d bet that you walk into these stores continuously and don’t notice the differences that are clear to me, […]
Stop the Hypocrisy
Most of us are tired of being told our work isn’t respectable, we can’t expect respect and rights, the list goes on. I’m here to say there’s strength in numbers; I like to kee..
Puppy Love
When I bought my dog early on during my decade-tenure in Southern California, he was small and quiet, shut away with his littermates. But after a bath, a visit to a veterinarian, and a couple […]
Critical Care
Recently, the talk of the escort industry has been how badly escorts perform customer service, what they can do better, and what effect that improvement would have to help retain clients who can find …
Classic…
As I settle into my seat aboard the flight from New York to Los Angeles, I feel much the same as I did almost a decade ago on the very same flight. I have to […]
Seats for the Hungry at the Academic Table
It is easy to have faith in California. I’ve participated in some of my state’s iconic events: been to games at Chavez Ravine, watched my niece burst into tears as Goofy shook her hand a….
Treacherous Realm of Life’s Certainty
I know a man who’s a full-time professional poker player; he lives and moves and has his beginnings in that windowless, clock-less pleasure dome known as Las Vegas. It’s an easy life–earn….
An Agnostic Wondering about the Crucifix
I was raised without religion and I am all of those things that agnostics are…so far, it hasn’t caused me any bad experiences. I’ve always found the sexual ambiguity of Christ peculiar;…
Ripple Effects
Joining in a beach cleanup this week, I found soda cans, candy wrappers, a lone flip-flop. More trouble: the shore was dotten with dime-size bits of brightly colored plastic. This polka-dot effect ….
Reaching the Top
I may have thought that I had it made and was tempted to enjoy myself. But when I looked down, not only was I confronted with the dizzying prospect of the abyss out of which […]
Black Sea mud, Iron Curtain culture at a Soviet-style spa
To the List of Things That Are Good For You, such as broccoli, treadmills, and fiber, let me add another: Crimean mud. Or so I am led to believe by the director of the health […]
Clicking my shoes together…
My Golden State continues to lure people westward, and once they’ve experienced the effortless lifestyle, they’re hooked. Who can blame them? California inspires people to live better! ….
