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I can’t fuck everybody

Out of nowhere on Saturday night, I was accosted by a person who confessed to a certain longing for me – and I couldn’t counter by telling where my longings are – meanwhile in the shadows of the dance floor, someone new watched and wondered, and yet another continues texting and calling, jockeying for position – all while another called and asked me to join him in Amsterdam. 

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Barry

So mom looks at L last night and says with the fake moustache and Turkish fez, L looks like Barry, her ex-lovah. Intrigued those listening say, really now? She says yes, alas, we saw each other only briefly. Then someone asked, how long ago was that? And mom said, “A year and a half ago.” Things that make you go hmmm.  

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Motoring to our picnic

The girls were so kind to clean up my entire house while I was off on an adventure last night. I got home at 3AM and walked in to the dishes all done and the floors swept clean. I climbed in bed and sadly was up with the bells chiming at 6AM. No rest for the weary. The morning involved reviewing and renewing what is ahead and then J said let’s take the boat down…

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Someone else’s drama – someone else’s desire

I got sucked into a whirlwind of desire – caught between the cross wires of someone else’s drama. It reminded me of the portraits that hang in the Redwood Room in San Francisco. They’re pictures of men and women, and their eyes move and the backstory is that this guy is with this girl but he wants the girl across from him, and she wants the girl next to her, and on and on. What…

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Turkish Party

Fatma and I have been planning to have a Turkish party since our trip. We were going to make Turkish food, play our Turkish music we bought, dance Turkish. and invite a bunch of Turkish people over to look at the slide show. Well we finally had it. Of course, it was only one week after having 25 people over for Thanksgiving and an extremely busy week at work – but the good news was…

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