Okay, I know that title might look like some contrarian bit of attention seeking by putting the words "Gen Y" and "Lucky" together, but read on! I was inspired by Lizz Schumer's (sp?) post on how hers is truly a f**cked generation to contemplate my own demographic lucky.

What is Generation… Read full post »

We were in the wrong house.

Someone was still living here.

There was really no other explanation for what greeted me upstairs. Every single item, it seemed, that the room’s inhabitant had brought into the space was still there, down to the open but mostly still full pack of cigarettes and lighte… Read full post »

Cindy Reid’s surprisingly controversial story in big Salon today about cleaning up foreclosed houses touched a nerve and a memory for me. The morality of profiting off of other’s misery aside, I immediately got what she was trying to say about the odd things people choose to lea… Read full post »

Okay, I have a group editing project here for the OS world. I was in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago for business and had dinner with this guy, and when I think back on this odd year, the time when the economy fell apart and my life started coming… Read full post »

This is my first OS posting, and I can't really say why I picked this piece. For one, I hate poetry. Well, okay, I actually just hate bad poetry, which covers about 95% of the stuff out there, most certainly including mine.

Secondly, talking about the developmental problems my nieces… Read full post »