Category: People
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I met a woman on a plane
She fumbled with her seat belt. Nervously mashing one piece of the buckle into the other, shaking so vigorously it could have been mistaken for a poor joke. She finally clicked the metallic pieces in. Airline belts are like the dodo bird, unusual in nature and generally useless. Still shaking, she shifted in her tiny,…
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The people of Boston : David
I was fortunate enough to spend some time in Boston this week during a conference for work. There is never quite enough time to actually see the city when you’re at a conference, but we were afforded some breaks. On one of my breaks I walked down Boylston St. to the place I had read…
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To less improvident actions
I spent a lot of time thinking about the word improvident the other day. Ironically. There are a number of things we collectively seem to do mindlessly. Drunk driving. Hitting the snooze button. Tying our shoes. Saying, “How are you?” when we don’t mean it. Having children. So what are we thinking about? According to…
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First world car problems in your twenties
I’ll admit it, I didn’t know how good I had it. I was car spoiled. I don’t mean I had a fancy car. It wasn’t even a new car. And my parents endlessly reminded me that they owned the car and that letting me drive it was a favor. As if I was going to…
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An explanation of my first 5 seconds of consciousness
On the weekends I have more time to contemplate how much I hate being woken up in the wrong way. To most people my ailment might bear the same characteristics of the minor discomfort they too feel each morning. But for me, it is much more than that. It’s an irrational feeling of abandonment in…
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The people and city of Los Angeles
This past weekend I was in Los Angeles cheering on a great man in the LA Marathon. To see blubbering photos of said man go here. We biked around a lot of downtown Los Angeles. It made me miss home. There’s just something about a big city that makes me deeply happy.
Jessica Puente 