Do you ever have days where you think everything is charted out, then out of the blue you get a call that turns everything upside down? Those days are the best. They test you; they want to see what you’re made of. And they want a good answer, free…

While the knee is healing quite nicely, according to my orthopaedic surgeon earlier this morning, the wrist is now the pesky annoyance on my person. Does it ever end? It received an injection of lidocaine and cortisone almost 14 hours ago, an expe…

Today was one of those days when California’s weather thought it would be funny to play a little trick, fooling its residents with sunshine when a jacket was actually more appropriate. The way the fog rolls in off the ocean during the summer eveni…

Most of the bushes in the backyard, plus a few in the front, are getting torn out tomorrow. What started as a small desire to remove a scraggly, stray, weed-like plant that found its way under the fence from my neighbor’s yard has become a full-fl…

I watched Moneyball tonight. It’s the sort of film I hope I’m able to write someday, although it takes actually finishing a screenplay for that type of thing to ever become even a remote possibility. I’ve enjoyed baseball for years. It’s important…

There are long weeks, and then there are really, really long weeks. Sometimes the four-day work weeks are the ones that suspiciously feel the longest, and other times you’ll have legitimately lengthy weeks when you’re in back-to-back meetings from…

Getting home at 11pm isn’t exactly a relaxing day. Somewhere in between the status meetings, launch planning, production chats, birthday gathering, budget developing, PowerPoint-ing, server perusing, meeting coordination, regrouping, logistics-dis…

In the last year, my me-list has grown to a fairly healthy length. Different than a to-do list, which I consider to be riddled with unexciting-yet-necessary things such as laundry, grocery shopping, sweeping out a garage and exercising a recently-…

Not to be outdone by the morning light, tonight’s sky was also as impressive as yesterday’s dawn. While the full moon was technically last night, driving home this evening and seeing it low in the sky, bathed in a reddish-orange haze, was a sight …

I have never seen a more perfect crystalline, turquoise sky like the one I saw this morning. It was just before 6 o’clock and, as I shuffled through the house to turn off the porch lights which had been standing guard all night, an azureous glow f…