Going Alone

Yesterday was a huge day for us. Yumiko told her boss that she’s leaving—in ten months, but that’ll go fast. Yumiko has a key role where...

In his novel, Two Years Before The Mast, Richard Henry Dana Jr. writes about his 1836, mid-winter experience of rounding Cape Horn in the...

Beginning today, I will conclude my daily Good Life meditation with an earnest assessment of my readiness to die. In short, asking myself...

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...

Watching 2.5 Oyaji this morning while finishing my GLM. It’s so much fun seeing Hiko Saemon and Victor Boggio again for the first time in...

It’s good now to leave my ambition in the rear-view mirror. It was always a small and very slight thing, my ambition—nothing to it...

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....

A very difficult day yesterday. Something utterly horrifying happened to our next door neighbor—beyond belief. I was outside before...

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...