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Harrison Ford was a carpenter before he was the biggest star in the universe. George Lucas needed carpentry work on a door in the studio. Harrison Ford knew Fred Roos who was working for Lucas. Ford had briefly known Lucas because he played a small role in the movie, “American Graffiti” (remember that pre-Star Wars […]

I stopped sleeping for fifteen years the first day I left my full-time job to go to my own business, which had been operating already for 18 months. I worked all day at my full-time job and then all night at company, along with my dozen or so employees. I stopped having friends for at […]

I was going to get fired. I’d get to the office late, close my office door, and then try and write fiction all day. Then at 4:45, before it got dark, I’d sneak out, walk to the highway and hitchhike home. Hitchhiking helped me overcome chronic shyness. I’d look forward all day to it: who […]

Since they’ve been born I’ve been afraid of three things:   One, that eventually they would hate each other.. Only because many siblings do. So I take these photos to show them all the times they’ve loved each other. That they delight in each other’s company. Two, perhaps egotistically, that they would call each other […]

I told her I would never write about her again. The first time I wrote about her was in 2009. I met her in a bookstore and she was drawing and I was attracted to her. I asked her what she was drawing. She told me her whole story. And then a week later I […]

Nothing. I almost have nothing more to say about it. I haven’t been following the news at all about the entire issue. But I know a thing or two about financial disasters. This is so far from a financial disaster it’s almost ludicrous when I looked at the headlines (although I avoided reading the articles) this […]

If I had bad grades, my dad would hit me. Later, when I was thrown out of school, I lost my friends. When I was fired from a job, I became a recluse. When I was kicked out of my business, I lost my home. When I lost my home, I was ashamed to tell […]