Scene While Walking: Sun-Daze

With or without a mask, consciously arranging my face from the inside out makes all the difference. — Throughout my life, I’ve had the privilege of loving, working with, and managing many extraordinary people—people I respect and cherish and learn from every day. Here’s the thing… something occasionally comes between me and the people with whom I most frequently interact: my face. And that can be a problem…

The Cumulative Impacts of Cancer Treatment are Not Unlike those of the Reagan Revolution: Sickening — It’s a familiar refrain throughout this terrible, dystopian year so far: everything sucks. Everything. I get it. It sucks for me, too. My career kind of fell apart at the beginning of the year. A new coronavirus emerged to challenge the world. The economy fell apart, too. Worst of all…

A New Place Called Home, as Old Notions of “Place” Change Fast — Where I live in San Francisco, housing is pretty dense. And it’s an old fashion kind of dense—mid- and low-rise apartments and condos with front and back stairways. Rear windows looking out on other rear windows. My place has a door off the kitchen that opens onto the back stairs…

Societies make choices about what constitutes “acceptable” deaths. In the U.S., we’re about to make that choice around COVID–19. — We all make trade-offs of one sort or another. We make choices. Sometimes really hard ones. People today are facing down losing their house or declaring bankruptcy. Paying rent or buying food. …

Reoccupying the world after life in the time of coronavirus — It’s a well-know fact that humans actively dislike change — indeed, we go to great lengths to avoid it. And if it is unavoidable, we generally like to navigate change as quickly and painlessly as possible, like acne or taxes. Life in the time of coronavirus (apologies, Gabriel Garcia Marquez)…