Going Alone

Yesterday was July 4th. And the fireworks here in Huntington Beach were an experience I will never forget, and I wish to never repeat....

I sat in my yard yesterday evening watching the whole world swirling around me like a great storm. I was reading my book, but also...

Such a crowd at the beach yesterday… I sat on my towel for a bit and soaked it all up: warm air and a light summer breeze, cool...

The ocean here has turned a corner of sorts, wrapping itself into summer in earnest, giving up its caprice, and the seeming will and...

I’ve decided to not use the CPAP machine which my doctor prescribed for me. I’m going to call the company today that sent me the device...

My neighbor two doors down is falling fast. His name is Bob. We talk almost daily as he shuffles past the window where I work. I’ve been...

I always begin my day reading a poem. In this way, I’m guaranteed to finish the day better than yesterday no matter what happens. A...

Wow! Yumiko and I really overdid it yesterday. I’d picked a restaurant that was way outside and beyond anything we’d ever experienced....

There is a group of youths I meet most afternoons now. Five or six teenage boys and a couple of young girls. They sit together near the...

There was a dead seal on the beach yesterday. A shark had clearly taken a sizable bite out of its side, and the seal’s head was missing....

Yesterday, I was swimming alone after work out past the breakers, when I suddenly heard a voice next to me say “please come back to...

My daughter is talking (texting) at me from Japan this morning. She’s planning her time and experiences there after her Tokyo internship...

For a time yesterday I was standing on one of life’s several summits, looking back across the landscape already crossed. I was the oldest...

I learned a few things about myself yesterday by surfing. First, I learned that I can become a surfer again if I want to. At age...

I’m going surfing this morning. Something I haven’t done in over thirty years. I’m already prepared for failure; ready to simply float...

Exhausted… But what a fun day yesterday was. Hiko is here, and we shared the day and I showed him around. I overdid it, probably, which...

Today, I rendezvous with the past—my JVLOG past. That once lived life in Japan as a peripheral member of a loose community of ex-pat...

Today I’m free again and can go back into the sea. The wound in my side is fully healed and my damaged leg is much better. However, I’ve...

The hole in my body is nearly healed. The gash in my side where a surgeon cut me open to dig out a tumor to see what it is. It’s benign....

Yumiko and I were both very tired after work yesterday… We walked the dogs together slowly along a meandering circuit through the angled...