While you’re reading this entry, I am probably somewhere in the sky trying to get some shut eye. Hopefully I won’t have a stranger grabbing my arm for dear life like during the last transatlantic flight homeward bound. I try to reassure nervous passengers whenever possible (it actually distracts me from my own anxieties) (no, flying never gets any more …
Give Me Back My Name
 After waking up early from an anxiety dream, I find out from an internet friend that my identity has been hijacked by someone at an Asian website. This imposter signed up at the site’s forum using my login name which consists of five initials, my avatar, and my photographs. All the photos were either lifted from this blog or from …
Before and After
 So today I’m following up on the pottery day I blogged about a couple of weeks ago with some before and after photos. Above is what my tile now looks like after it’s been baked and glazed. The studio also added a wire at the top so that I can hang it on the bulletin board I have in my home office. …
The Show Did Go On
If you were anywhere near a TV this morning you probably saw the Michael Jackson memorial. The early stats were: a price tag of $1.2M and climbing to the city in a bankrupt state and 3200 cops to manage thousands of people outside and inside the Staples Center. My friends in Belgium watched it live, as did viewers in 180 …
Lone Star
 I finally unpack my suitcases from the Dallas trip, but it’s just a matter of time before I refill them with necessities for the next trip that’s happening in a couple of weeks. No disclosure yet as to where I’ll pop up next, but if I’m lucky I’ll get to hear a few languages totally foreign to my ears. …