by toby | Jul 14, 2010 | Life
Rainbows Super cheesy topic folks. I want to preface the following remarks with the explanation that I was, indeed, a child who believed in fairies, unicorns, spirits and menehunes. Not Santa though—we didn’t do Santa. But we loved rainbows in our family, and...
by toby | Jul 13, 2010 | Life
(Names and details confused to befuddle anyone trying to figure out who's in this story) Anna is a little woman with an amazing mind who possesses two master’s degrees and speaks three languages. She talks rapidly, like her thoughts leave her tongue behind. She and...
by toby | Jul 9, 2010 | The Writing Life
Apparently I am not the only one to taste the bitter dregs of REJECTION. An evil vintage. Dylan Moran
by toby | Jul 9, 2010 | Life
“I need natural material shoes,” my daughter says, pacing nervously around the house as she packs for her first-ever helicopter trip. “I also need to wear all natural fiber clothes.” She’s packing for a week in the trackless jungle on the rainy side of the volcano...
by toby | Jul 7, 2010 | Life
Always my favorite body part, hands are a miracle of engineering. A series of segmented digits wired together by tendons and muscles, clothed in skin and armored by nails, they’re animated by electricity. Hands have painted, molded, harvested and built the world....