Below you'll find a list of all posts from April, 2014
I love Los Angeles, and I love Hollywood. They’re beautiful. Everybody’s plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic. Andy Warhol One of my first jobs growing up in San Jose was working the counter at the McDonald’s down the street. I enjoyed the job and felt no shame about cheerfully inquiring “Fries or coke with that today?” …
On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend’s life also, in our own, to the world. Henry David Thoreau The temptation is strong to turn those we love and lose into monuments. In …
Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves? Friedrich Nietzsche What is this thing, boredom, that seems to unnerve so many? I truly am at a loss. Personally, I like having time here and there throughout my day to breathe, to let thoughts and feelings uncoil themselves after a busy stretch of activity, or just …
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness. Dalai Lama Weddings, like funerals, are a great window into what matters in life. Last weekend in a sun-dappled courtyard in Florida for the wedding of my friends Joe and Susan, I was a little startled to feel a deep joy, one I haven’t always felt at weddings, a joy …
Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. Ernest Hemingway I do love a good beer. During my years living in Berlin, I came to love beer even more, and why not? One of my favorite spots in Sarah’s and my Friedrichshain neighborhood of East Berlin was Hops & …
Take a look at our beautiful baby goats as they are discovering the world! [slideshow_deploy id=1598]