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 2: The Shoe Car
I have lived in the same general area of Los Angeles for most of the nearly 30 years it has been since I escaped from Iowa (which I did as soon as I was sure my parents couldn't send a sheriff to bring me back). It's North Hollywood unless you want to call it Toluca...
The Year of Living Differently Day 1: New Year’s on the Las Vegas Strip
I'm kicking off The Year of Living Differently in Las Vegas, which has offered me a veritable all-you-can-eat buffet of new and different. I dined at a couple of restaurants I have never visited before; I went in to an Apple store for the very first time (verdict: a...
The Year of Living Differently
I'm bored. I could wax eloquently about the search for meaning in my life after a brush with death in the form of a particularly nefarious form of cancer. I could frame it in bucket list and/or YOLO terms, just to be multi-generational. If I tried hard enough, I could...
Flawless
Every time I look in the mirror, the scars are a reminder. I have been struggling with them; the scars. I think they are ugly. I joke it off by saying that I look like an assistant in a magic act that went horribly awry, but really I feel freakish and disfigured....
Reflective
It's been an interesting year. How's that for understatement? Let's tally it all up, shall we? Four surgeries, three endoscopies, three PET scans, 17 days in the hospital (6 of which were in the ICU), ten different doctors, around two dozen separate doctor's office...
A Year in the Life
I guess this makes me a cancer survivor now? Shouldn't that come with a medal or a cape or some sort of frame-worthy certificate, at the very least? In case that's too oblique, the PET scan results were good and there is no indication of cancer although there are a...
Would You Look at the Time!
It seems like just yesterday I was complaining about how long I had to wait before I could get my next set of tests – you know, the ones that would (in theory) tell me if I’m living or dying. There’s no way I could wait until June, I thought. That seemed entirely too...
The Countdown
Nothing much new to report, other than that "nothing new" is at least something, which is to say I haven't dropped dead. Apparently that's a concern when the frequency of posts on here diminish. I hadn't really thought of it but I guess it makes sense: when one is...
The Million Dollar Man
I keep waiting for cancer to make me a better person. To be honest, I feel a little cheated – like I should get one of those “and all I got was this lousy t-shirt” t-shirts. “I got cancer and feel as though it should have fundamentally changed who I am as a human...
King of Pain
On the evening of September 11, 2001 I decided I had gotten my fill of the horror show repeating in an endless loop on every channel on the TV and needed a drink, damn it. I couldn't bear the thought of West Hollywood - I rarely can - and many of my regular haunts...
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.