The following is a series of posts that were originally published on an old blog of mine in December 2006, shortly after I started a new job in San Francisco. While searching for permanent housing, I stayed in a dingy transient hotel, and was then kicked out of it (as you can read in part [...]
The following is a series of posts that were originally published on an old blog of mine in November 2006, shortly after I started a new job in San Francisco. While searching for affordable, permanent housing (a seemingly futile endeavor), I stayed in a dingy transient hotel. This is my story. Arrival, November 9 Between [...]
A lot of people have been asking me about the short anecdotes at the beginning of my stuttering post two months ago[1], so I thought it would be fun to expand on them a bit. By including those short snippets in my original essay, my intention wasn’t to garner sympathy or arouse indignation; I just [...]
In 2005, my dad took my sister Caitlin and me on a trip to the East Coast. While walking through the ferry building in New York City, I noticed a pigeon walking around inside. For some reason that I’m still not sure of, I mumbled under my breath in an exaggerated sarcastic tone, “Nice pigeon.” [...]