I microwaved some turkey sausage crumbles this evening and they immediately began to spark, the same way a coffee mug with a gold or silver design sparks. Dinner wasn’t off to the best start. I wasn’t quite sure what was going on. It was…turkey. Frozen crumbles. Crumbles I’ve microwaved a thousand times before. As I […]
He just wanted to turn left into a housing tract. But it was rush hour, and he had to get across three lanes of traffic first. I was in the middle lane and the light up ahead was red. My lane was backing up quickly, so I kept the intersection open and left a clear […]
When the light is green, the last thing you want to do is come to a dead stop. Might seem like a no-brainer, but someone did it today. Right in front of us. The impact it could’ve had — both literal and otherwise — would have been far-reaching. It’s green. Why is she stopping? The […]
I woke up this morning at 3:15 for no good reason. I remember being startled and assumed for a moment that I’d been jolted awake by an earthquake — only the dining room chandelier wasn’t moving. Weird. After a glass of water and shuffling around in the dark to make sure nothing was amiss, I […]
When I took driver’s ed in high school, our teacher always told us to know where our “outs” were. “What’s your out?” he’d ask as I was driving on a major road. “To my left,” I’d say. “Are you sure?” he’d prod. He wanted to make sure I had confidence in my answer. “Yep, already […]
Fourteen floors above the streets of Huntington Beach, I walked over to the window around 4:45 to check on the traffic below. It was immediately apparent that something was wrong. Across the street, a woman was yelling at a man who was walking away. There was no shortage of F-bombs from her, and the tirade […]
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