A is for Aaron.

We considered naming him Eli. I liked how the name looked when I wrote it down; and I remembered (fondly) watching some TV series in which there was an adolescent boy character named Eli. Maybe I liked that his name would be a part of my own. Eli, Elizabeth. But we couldn’t imagine ourselves calling [...]

new starts

Recently I went back through all of my old blog posts and recategorized them. You might wonder, “Geez, what the heck did you do that for?” for which I do not blame you one bit. I wondered that myself over the week or so it took me to recategorize 470 posts. It was quite tedious, [...]

found

I was walked home from the gym yesterday morning. The fog was receding as I traveled, slithering backward over peaks and cell towers, leaving a warm sunny day behind.
From the gym to my house is about a mile, and the return walk is almost entirely uphill. The hill is so steep that if I leave [...]

musings on a warm day

It’s a warm day in San Francisco. Days like these, in which San Franciscans normally clad in jeans and fitted jackets and scarves wrapped expertly around their necks are seen wearing shorts and sundresses and flip-flops, are becoming less and less rare here. I saw an article a few weeks ago that detailed some research [...]