by aaron | Nov 21, 2014 | Essays
One of the uncontrollable things about apartment life is your neighbors. Over the years I’ve had some good ones, and of course a couple I could’ve done without. Either way, neighbors are a lot like family members: you don’t get to choose them, and no...
by aaron | Aug 23, 2014 | Essays
I wanted to write but didn’t know about what, and for inspiration I turned to the news. The headlines read: continued protests and unrest in Ferguson, MO; ISIS demanded ransoms before beheading journalist; bombs kill Palestinian leaders in Gaza; quarantines...
by aaron | Jun 6, 2014 | Essays
Yesterday afternoon an armed gunman walked onto the campus of Seattle Pacific University and killed one student and wounded two others before being taken into custody. Earlier today local police apprehended a man suspected of killing two with a firearm in the Central...
by aaron | Jun 3, 2014 | Essays
Last week former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made a bid to purchase the Los Angeles Clippers basketball team for roughly $2-billion dollars. Ballmer, Basketball and Billion each begin with a B, but the offer, incomprehensible as that number is in itself (especially...
by aaron | May 21, 2014 | Essays
(This is the second movement of a two part essay. The first can be read here.) Having already addressed what I think you can reasonably expect from your server when eating in a restaurant, let’s turn now to what you can-not expect. This part of the conversation...
by aaron | May 20, 2014 | Essays
As regular readers of this space will know, I work in a restaurant. I generally find this to be a nice enough thing to do. Undeniably it’ss still work, but serving tables and tending bar beats most other jobs I’ve held. Given that I’ve spent a lot of...