Two weeks ago I started coughing a persistent, dry cough. Uh oh, I thought. Bronchitis? Yikes. I rarely get sick. What’s this all about? Little did I know that my bronchitis was a Divine messenger delivering timely information!

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Sometimes you have to grow down before you can grow up. I learned this in September 2004, the morning I woke from a dream with a pounding heart.

It wasn’t exactly a nightmare, but it definitely caught my attention. Read the rest of this entry »

A few weeks ago my partner Scott introduced me to "It’s Its." You California people may know what they are, but for those of you who don’t, well…be forewarned. As a result of this discovery I gained 5 pounds in one week. Apparently, I wasn't fully aligned with my goal of losing 5 pounds. Read the rest of this entry »

Several weeks ago, the phone rang at 12:30 am. I knew it couldn’t be good news. Nobody calls me that late at night.

I leapt out of bed and answered the phone. Just as I suspected, it was my partner Scott. He’d just finished playing a gig with his blues band in San Francisco only to discover that his truck, which he’d parked in an open air parking lot, was stuck behind a thick chain that locked the lot for the night. Read the rest of this entry »

A few weeks ago I put a gate in our hallway to keep my cats in the living room. Every day they poked and prodded trying to find a way through it, over it or under it. No such luck. Eventually, they gave up and resumed their daily affairs.

So today when two delivery guys came to deliver our new dryer, I closed the bedroom doors and put the cats in the hallway. I simply assumed the gate would keep them safely out of harm’s way until the delivery guys left. Read the rest of this entry »