I’ll Eat To That
Travel diaries, food porn, random rants, and various musings about stuff that I feel like musing about.
Blog Posts
TYOLD Day 51: Radioactive Shingles
Because of my different oncologist, I had to get my PET scan in a new place today - the Roy and Patricia Disney Family Cancer Center in Burbank. It's significantly nicer than the place in Glendale I had been going to, which had the Liberace lobby and was located in a...
TYOLD Day 50: The Trevor Project
I'm a little too broken to do anything too original for my Differently today. For the record, shingles suck. But this pain is transitory and temporary and will get better eventually and I will forget about it and move on and I was thinking about that and how kind of...
TYOLD Day 49: Not the Kind of Differently I Was Hoping For
I've never had shingles before. Can't say as I'm enjoying them much. Painkillers, nerve pain medication, pain relieving patches, steroids, and antiretroviral medication . I'm fairly certain that any post I make for the next few days will probably involve mostly...
TYOLD Day 48: Capital-izing
A few weeks ago I boasted that I could name all 50 states in alphabetical order in under 30 seconds. Still true. I used to know is all of the state capitals but that has faded over time to the point where I wasn't sure if I could get past a dozen or so. Today I took...
TYOLD Day 47: Four Years
For my Differently today, I have a story I want to tell. I’ve told pieces of it before to various people; some of this is from a book I wrote but then never did anything with. But I’ve never put it together in quite this way. It’s a bit long but I hope you'll indulge...
TYOLD Day 46: Examples of Irony
Example #1: I have always wanted to go to the Petersen Automotive Museum here in Los Angeles but the primary thing that has stopped me is that I didn't want to sit in all the traffic I'd need to sit in to get to its mid-Wilshire location. Example #2: When I finally...
TYOLD Day 45: Valentine’s Schmalentine’s
One the one hand, Valentine's Day seems to be engineered to make all of us who don't have a significant other feel as though we are pathetic loser who will never find true happiness or love and will die alone, surrounded by cats, sitting on our respective porches...
TYOLD Day 44: Random Acts of Kindness Day 4
Late in the day I got word that the PET scan had been approved by the insurance company, so now just waiting for scheduling. Now that I'm seeing Dr. Kangaroo instead of Dr. Wile E. Coyote, they are sending me to a different place to get the scan done, which I'm a bit...
TYOLD Day 43: It’s Always Something
NOTE: this is a long, rambling post that winds up being a little sad. You have been warned. A lot of disparate things happened today that qualify for the Differently pile but they all seemed to be connected, in ways big and small, to cancer. I wish the theme for the...
TYOLD Day 42: Random Acts of Kindness Day 2
Lately I have been obsessed with fruit smoothies - I have one almost every single morning, often from Jamba Juice. Today, I got my medium Razzmatazz, paid for it, and then handed the clerk a $20 bill and one of the ROAK cards. I told her to pay for the drink of the...
Deeper Dives
The Year of Living With Cancer
In 2012, I was diagnosed with Esophageal Cancer. To help myself cope with it, I wrote about it. A lot. And yes, the picture of Angela and Jordan will make sense at some point if you read enough.
The Year of Living Differently
After cancer, I decided to try to mix things up and do something different every single day for a year. Did I make it?
50 for 50 by 50
To celebrate, or perhaps to distract myself from, my impending 50th birthday in 2016, I embarked on a project to give $50 to 50 different charities by the time I turned 50.
Gun Violence
A page full of facts to help you be better informed about the issues surrounding gun violence in the United states.