Mixed Moss

Yesterday morning everything seemed to make sense and I commented jokingly to my co-worker, Diane, that the answers to all of life’s questions could be found in the collective songs of Frank SInatra, The Beatles, and U2.
Then yesterday night, I found out that I am moving. Not here in Chicago; down in Cincinnati. As […]

So I’ve been helping my intern director, Katie, with this blood drive thing she organizes for the church about four times a year. And I’ve spent a lot of time on it, you know? I organized things in new, repeatable ways that make things better. I’ve created a lot of things that can be used again […]

Today I went to the zoo with Melissa Miller, a girl who works at the community center where the south branch of the cafe is located, and her husband Matt who comes in for coffee every morning. I was happy about that because a) I wanted to go to the zoo, b) they are nice, […]

Yesterday it was so humid out that it felt like 110 degees, when in actuality it was only 82. It rained over night though and now it is much cooler and less humid; it’s in the seventies and feels it.
So the other day I was talking to Melissa Miller, a new friend I have made […]

I’m interested in a lot of random things, and I have a lot of random hobbies. I’m thinking about adding one more to the list: I want to make my own soap and shampoo and bath gel and lotion and stuff. So I picked up a book at Barnes and Noble the other day that […]

So at the community center (where the south branch of the cafe is) there is a TV hanging from the ceilingright across from the cash register, where I can see it, and it is tuned to the weather station all day every day (with the volume turned down, so you can hear the radio station […]

My friends all seem to be moving and/or traveling lately. They have scattered to the wind like so much straw. That sounds like a line from a song in Fiddler on the Roof or like something out of the book of Lamentations or Ecclesiastes, but it isn’t any of those things. I don’t think. Here […]

So today was the anniversary of man landing on the moon. Thirty five years ago today, Neil Armstrong (who is from Wapokaneta, OH where there is a museum to him and, coincidentally, a couple of fast-food joints I have frequented a total of seven times. No decent person should have been to Wapokaneta seven times. […]

This weekend was wonderful.
Well, actually, it started out not-so-great. Friday starts my weekend because it is the day I have an intern meeting instead of going to the coffee shop to work. This Friday there was a major detour on the way to the office and I wound up being about thirty minutes late. As […]

So I’m studying for the GRE. That’s the test that gets you into grad school. I don’t know yet whether I want to go to grad school or not, but there’s a good chance, and they say that you should do it a year before you want to start grad school so I’m going to […]