Holy Week and Passover passed by each other last week and it gave Cody and I plenty to message each other. Cody is half-Jewish and had a remarkable childhood as a Jew who presented as Asian as far as the vast majority of the world was concerned. He went to schuul where he was the only person with an Asian face, and was bar mizvah'd. The whole nine ( Read more... )

Wait. Someone was explaining something about a hike a while back. I'm fairly certain it wasn't Crosby. Should I ask someone about going on the hike?

No.
[pause]
No.

Crosby's seen me climbing down stairs sideways like a crab. No one wants a geezer on a hiking trip.

Keep thinking.

I've thought about it. Haha, I'm going on the hike.

So, Crosby saved me from Pablo's grip this morning. Pablo was well into sweeping this Spanish lady I've only seen a few times before, clear off her feet - fetching her coffee and slices of cranberry bread - when Crosby calmly walked over and asked whether I'd help him arrange boxes "in the back room?". To Pablo the woman's chagrin, he didn't have ( Read more... )