a year in review

a year in review

The last few minutes of 2010 are slowly ticking away as I sit here in my apartment in Culver City in front of a space heater waiting to go to bed.  I don’t know why I feel like I have to stay up to wait the clock change over to midnight, but I always feel … Continue reading »

the blog of christmas present

I woke up like most years, warm in bed.  But unlike last year and so many years in the past, I woke up not to a white Christmas, but to a bright one of 62˚.  I’ve spent the last 5 weeks struggling with the concept that Christmas is approaching. Spending my first Christmas in Los … Continue reading »

the blog of christmas past

December 25, 2008 I just had the best Christmas ever. I’m at the Jungle Mantra Lodge outside of a Bandhavgar National Park in India.  I slept well, despite only having arrived very early that morning.  We enjoyed a delicious breakfast on the veranda, which was followed by a Catholic mass given by an Indian Priest. … Continue reading »