Category Archives: Metablog

Originally posted March 10. *** Growing up in Titusville, Florida, you get used to the launches, you become accustomed to the strange fact that one of our nation’s greatest technical achievements is on full display mere miles from your house, that every now and then a 300,000-pound rocket is shot from the earth into space, [...]

Originally posted April 13. *** Today, I’m remembering: Being newlyweds in Key West in the summer, the heat powerful and perfect, afternoon naps in a papaya-colored room. I remember eating Mexican food outside about an hour before sunset, music playing in a language I don’t understand, the sun winking just over a brown fence, behind [...]

Originally posted May 5. *** The days are getting longer. As I type this, the sun has not yet set, even though I’ve not eaten dinner, nor am I hungry. I can see the house across the street getting the evening light, their Bradford pear perfectly shaped and bathed in the loveliest shade of yellow. [...]

Originally posted June 28. Yesterday, I was leaving Walmart when I noticed a little clump of upset people near the door. Two managerial-looking Walmart employees stood with disapproving and suspicious looks on their faces next to three people, probably in their twenties, who were holding an un-bagged box and saying something in indignant and loud [...]

Originally posted July 14. *** If you have never had a baked pork bun, let me tell you just one thing: You need to have a baked pork bun. Preferably right now. And preferably made by a Chinese person in San Francisco. Preferably from this bakery right here: What is a baked pork bun, you [...]