Category: Personal Adventures

It came to my attention after posting the last segment of the story that, as anticipated, my chronology was a bit off. As Ali best remembers it, I came up to Lynchburg on what was probably a Thursday afternoon/evening, and the event of our first hanging out would have been Friday night and not Monday…

It might be helpful in light of the rest of this story to consider everything up to this point as more or less a preface, a prolegomena if you will. If you don’t know what a prolegomena is, well, that’s why I gave you preface first. I generally try to eschew obfuscation, but sometimes it…

Alright, so where were we? Oh that’s right, not very close to actually explaining how the present state of affairs came into being. That’s ok though, the story continues to unfold and there is no hurry to get it all into print right away. It’s kinda hard to forget you know? Although details tend to…

Well anyway, I hope you don’t mind but this is where the story gets kinda boring. I mean not really boring, but just you know…not as exciting as some of the other parts will prove to be. When we left our future couple, Ali had moved back to Florida and Nate was buried somewhere under…

If that wasn’t a long enough intro, I’m not sure what will satisfy you. I suppose you can rest in the fact that at this point all we’ve done is met each other, so obviously there’s a little more to the story than love at first sight. In fact quite far from it, but at…

I suppose a bit of an explanation is in order. “In order to what?” you might well ask. In order to assuage your curiosity and to facilitate my memory enhancement program, and because it’s fun to tell stories, especially geographically challenging ones with convoluted plotlines and numerous twists and turns. I bet now you are…

So I realized today that I’m a water snob now. Being a coffee snob comes with the whole black apron deal at working for Starbucks, but little did I know that the water would come with it as well. Apparently, a cup of coffee is 90% water (its the other 10% that has all the…

Every morning I wake up to a seventh story view of the eastern Dallas skyline against the early morning darkness. My perspective of course is enhanced by the fact I sleep in the top bunk of a bunk bed. And I wake up facing the skyline because that’s the direction of my vibrating phone come…

There’s a hint of autumn in the air. Only a hint though, the skyline was draped in haze as I woke this morning, signalling of course oppressive humidity and air that is less than crisp and fall-like. At least the mercury has dropped a bit. For those not keeping score, or just not really aware…