My passenger is one minute away, though it takes me a little longer to get there. I wait. I call her. Lyft doesn’t have a text service for drivers and passengers to connect…
One of my Uber Chronicles stories.
I pick up a young guy from his job at a nearby fast-casual restaurant. He’s a junior in high school (the same school I attended).…
I closed out the year by doing a ceremony with the entheogenic grandmother medicine, known as ayauhausca, followed by another entheogen: frog medicine, or Kambo. Both have purgative qualities, the frog medicine much more so than…
OK, who is familiar with the fictional works of Caleb Carr , a brilliant writer? A couple of decades ago, I read a handful of his Victorian era books (The Alieniest, then came…
One of my Uber Chronicles stories.
You smell like pot.
That’s the first thing that comes out of my mouth when two white, early-20s guys get in my car. They chuckle. Yeah,…
Things are quite pink at Pink Heart camp. Here with the lovely Ali Young during Build Week at Burning Man, setting up the pink furry lounge so well known and visible on The…
Things are quite pink at Pink Heart camp. Here with the lovely Ali Young during Build Week at #BurningMan, setting up the Esplanade pink furry lounge. I think this was 2016. Somewhere around…
I purchased a new bike a few weeks ago--a black one, but I returned it and got a different one.
After purchasing the initial black bike, the store owner was helping me 1) get…
In 2010, I had an accounting-firm client whose business had been purchased by a much larger and international accounting firm. In many ways, the sale was a good thing for them, but with…
I love this time of year.
I love watching the Earth — and all her pieces — wake up, emerge. I love seeing that which was dead, transformed to become something anew.
A…
An oldie but a goodie. Basics, man. Basics!
A Common Sense Guide to Email Etiquette
I've become so incredibly good at flying in my (mostly lucid) dreams, and this flying has become such a common activity of late that earlier today I had to catch myself, realizing those…