So my most recent article for healthycal is part of an occasional series on aging with dignity and independence. Check it out! http://www.healthycal.org/now-program-for-seniors-in-limbo.html  

So I decided to take up my old professor’s advice and trek through the rain to the annual Committee of Concerned Journalists workshop going on at UCCS. It was a remarkably different experience than last year’s, when I was only two-weeks into my career as a reporter and could barely get my head around the … Continue reading »

One day I will write a paperback memoir to join the annals of other paperback memoirs currently collecting dust in off beat book stores. I will call it “Twenty lives in Sacramento.” It will detail, self-indulgently, the intricacies of post-college life in what many young adults have come to call the “trainer city,” or the … Continue reading »

This week was training week which meant I was paid to show up for three hours a day and eat food and listen to people talk about how inspired and proud they are of the co-op. Pretty much a cake walk where you actually get to have the cake and get paid for eating it … Continue reading »

The summer months took so long to show up I was beginning to feel disappointed and accept what seemed to be the impending mediocrity of summer ’11. Then the heat came and I felt like dieing. Nothing seemed more fitting for the situation than a glass of cold wine at the new Bows and Arrows, … Continue reading »

Yesterday was the first day in about two months that I’d stepped foot into the yoga studio and I went into it observing all my negative patterns, etc, etc, and all the things yogis are supposed to do. Realized some stuff, which was nice. Realized how many little realizations I have every day, which then … Continue reading »

Sometimes, when I’ve been out there in the big bad real world, I have yearned for my college days. Yearned for the freedom I felt biking down the night road coming back or going to some party at some house. With either a forty in my pack or an impending hangover in my head, some … Continue reading »

I have titled this post, uncreatively, “Thursday.” If you were hoping for something a little more edgy or meaningful then too bad. Get. Over. It. Well, the family visit didn’t turn out to be nearly as tragic as I’d been anxiously expecting. Everything worked out pretty seamlessly and my mom and the boys were entertained … Continue reading »

I haven’t published an actual news article in, like, a month. The story I was working on was cut because another reporter’s story sorta budged into it. Now without a story. Spent some time freaking out about my future as a journalist, the sudden lack of drive that has taken over since graduation. Talked it … Continue reading »

I have strange dreams and wake up to an eerie silence in the house. Realize later that one of my ears is plugged, so I’m par-deaf. I go on a walk to Old Soul and the streets are deserted. It feels like I am the only person in the world. Nobody walking around. No cars. … Continue reading »