The telephone lines stretched across the freeway, attached to poles flanking the city streets. The setting sun was behind me and, as I looked up, I could see a flock of pigeons hanging out and watching the cars speed by underneath them. Since thei…

Earlier today I was looking online at real estate listings in Greece. It’s amazing what you can get for your money, and in such an amazing climate, such a beautiful part of the world and with such history everywhere you turn. I started doing some …

I’m exhausted. It’s only Monday. All day long I felt like I had endless energy. I felt focused, I felt like I was crossing things off my list left and right, and I felt good. I arrived home and instantly felt beat. Weary. Defeated. Odd, since my d…

I’ve mentioned before that summer is my least favorite season. I’m sure it sounds ridiculous coming from a California girl, but it’s the truth. August is especially bad, as all the heat that we didn’t get from the June gloom seems to wait to come …

This morning at the hair salon, I took note of the fundraiser box of candy bars in front of me. After cursing its presence, I promptly bought a Twix and felt good about contributing to a junior lifeguard’s efforts to go to New Zealand. I polished …

For as much as I love being behind the wheel, one of the biggest bummers about driving is the plethora of other drivers seemingly determined to cut you off. The ones who gun it and dart across five lanes after only casually glancing towards the fa…

So I was chatting with a friend earlier this evening over happy hour about the idea of doing something every day for a year or more, e.g. this blog or, in the case of his example, a gentleman who photographed himself — and we’re talking three or …

I don’t know how it happened, but it did. It was almost like magic, with perhaps a dash of time travel thrown in for good measure. The same way you fall asleep some nights and wake up what feels like seconds later with the alarm clock going off is…

Someone today said that there are no missed opportunities — they’re simply passed on to other people. How true this is. The person said this was a Greek thing to say, but in reality, perhaps they’re just the ones who are most realistic in this ca…

During the evenings when I’m watering in the backyard, I’ll often hear the distant sound of a passing airplane overhead. Not a small two or four-seater, but instead the kind that speaks of some sort of great journey ahead — the ones that hold a f…