So there I was, watching football on TV while an early fall rain pelted the windows. The national anthem was competing for attention with the horses in their stalls beneath my barn apartment. I think they were doing some sort of Native American interpretive rain dance down there, and the stomping reverberated up through the […]
I used to go there. So much so that deep, deep memories have been etched into me from my time framed by those walls. I’d meet friends in the tiny room for big bowls of soup with thick noodles after watching the sun go down on our boards out in the water. Sometimes my dad […]
The photo is grainy. But it is the moment, and it is enough. The For The Sender-sponsored surf camp for veterans was this weekend in Huntington Beach. I spoke to the whole group at the beginning, with policemen and firemen standing in a line behind me in remembrance of 9/11. I talked about service and […]
The birthday candle wouldn’t stop singing. It started innocently enough, with a giant plastic pink stake driven down into a huge pan of brownies. The flame touched the wick and everyone sitting at the campfire table under the stars murmured as the stake opened into a flower with each petal lit by its own tiny […]