Real Not Real

My latest post is up on visadiaries.com …

A few months ago, a friend told me that if he heard the phrase “In this economy” one more time, he might explode. Little did we know, then, how many more times we’d get to hear it, and, frankly, how much more we’d care about hearing it. How we’d probably come to hang on the words of stories that began that way, and how we’d pray to move beyond it.

This is a story that begins “In this economy.” It’s a story about the joy that consumables can bring us, and the ability to find that joy for under $20. It’s a story about a showerhead that has changed my life, or at the very least, my mornings … (more after the jump)

SFMoMA, Otl’s Olympic paraphernalia from Munich ‘72, through July 7, 2009.

A great gift delivered by my brother.

It was a lovely, lovely Valentine’s. Friends and champagne-and-fixins and a big gold heart on my big bay window.