homesick

I’m back home in the Bay Area now. I had a splitting headache, migraine-level, the entire flight home from New York.
When I’m in New York, I’m happy but miss Berkeley a little. And when I’m in Berkeley, I’m happy but miss New York. Can my heart belong in two places? [...]

a little touched

This morning, on my commute to work, I saw a lady, dressed in a bright yellow tshirt and white sweat pants and a colorful rainbow scarf, standing right by the freeway onramp.  “Why,” I thought, “is she standing on the onramp!”  But then a split second later, I saw the sign she was waving in [...]