Seizing Every Moment For a moment, I was a human bird hovering over a concrete earth, watching the green leaves above me sway under the summer heat. It’s easy to forget that the trees are there, since I keep myself sequestered indoors most of the time. But the lure of the swimming pool’s liberation was [...]

Love, Sex, and the L.A. Freeway System There’s nothing like spending four hours lost on the LA freeway system to bring life into perspective and provide plenty of time for introspection. It had been a successful trip to LA. I felt confident and happy after having successfully circumnavigated the city’s streets for three days, talked [...]

Sins of the Children “Make sure and tell your father that he’s going to hell for your sins,” the fat, angry man in the ugly brown jacket shouted as I snapped his photo. In his arms were two strongly worded protest signs. Beneath his feet was a damp and dirty American flag. My father has [...]

February Flinch Response If February has served no other purpose in my life, it has provided me with ample opportunities to do interesting things that I can later feel kinda foolish for having done. Valentine’s Day has been a yearly adventure into guilt, obligation, disappointment, and resentment; an ill-fated wedding on the groom’s birthday certainly [...]

Pleasure, Pain & Purification Le petite morte. The little death. Orgasm. A moment of both seemingly infinite sensation and solitude. No matter how much one loves their partner – if one chooses to have a partner during sex – the actual moment of orgasm is uniquely personal, like love, like death, like the kiss of [...]