A story from years ago:

The waiting room at UC Davis Medical Center.

Mom was in for a biopsy. Procedure: check in, get prepped. Wait, and wait longer: UCD is a Level 1 Trauma Center, and an accident with multiple casualties can divert theaters and staff, as it did that morning.

We watched a DVD on the laptop -- The Hours, because we’d heard it ( Read more... )

I'm uncharacteristically out at night, walking from BART -- the subway -- to home at 9:40 ( Read more... )

Yeah, grenades too ( Read more... )

A friend of mine used to make pipe bombs ( Read more... )

Math Scores Show No Gap for Girls, Study Finds ( Read more... )

So I’ve looked over the previous 1,496 entries and tagged some, largely so I can find some idea or notion or citation to reuse as fit - teachers are recyclers, to a large degree ( Read more... )

A lot of the guys in here in the morning are builders and craftsmen. I see a lot of union shirts and company logos. Leathermans in drywall-dusted belt holsters ( Read more... )

German Christmas ( Read more... )

One of my friends says, in listening to my commentaries on the Taoist/Buddhist teachings, that he wavers between seeing the sense of it and assigning it all to “mystical nonsensical word-wanking ( Read more... )

Let me try to explain to you what it was like ( Read more... )