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What Do You Think About When You Are Not Thinking About Anything Else?

To find out what I’m thinking about, I decided to track my thoughts. But it doesn’t work when your paying attention, like just now I was washing my hands, so for this exercise, I noticed myself saying to myself, “I’m washing my hands.”

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Airline Bumping, Circa Mid 90s

"Come here; I just want to talk to you," she sings in a tone that belies daggers. Two flight attendants are poised by the cabin door, ready, I am certain, to slam it behind me.

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GETTING GONGED BY CHUCK BARRIS

Was I really so taken in by the razzmatazz of Hollywood? Or was it simply the same response, say, a hamster would have had after slumbering in such close proximity to another hamster?

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Biting a Peach

biting into a peach at Trader Joe's and then throwing it away is a freedom I have as a white person, no less one with gray hair and a Medicare card in her fanny pack.

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In 2013 I Met a Homeless, Drug-Addicted Ex-Con; Now He’s My Co-Author

Anderson lived with his father for the first time and realized, “My daddy got a little care about me.”

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What Surprised You This Week?

While working on a series called "Living in Vein" for Street Sense (DC's street newspaper), I learned a new term, "abandominium."

Magical Performance

How could such gut-wrenching stories have resulted in such a magical performance?

Homeless Lives: Unforgettable Personal Stories

Sometimes the writers go home and work on their stories. Well, they don’t exactly go home, because many in the group are homeless.

Beijing and Bicycle Conundrum

It's a Beijing conundrum because I don't want to support the stolen bike industry by buying a new, used, probably stolen bike.

Ski and the City

Not everyone has as much attraction to strangers as I do, but if you do, with skis and the city and a camera, you have a great excuse.