Are you familiar with how one day can follow another? Have you noticed how a high can be given its cruddy yang at what you would call an unseemly moment? I have lived this life and am here to report from my position doing the backstroke in a mud puddle.
Perhaps you read the entry before [...]
Do you enjoy contradictions? So do a lot of people. For example, that commercial in which the young black men are listening to rap music then when no one is watching they get out of the car and are great ballerinas. It is a curveball just like if they received Sunset magazine in the mail. [...]
Also tagged Amy Caron, Cara Beth Burnside, half pipe, Michelle Stielen, Mimi Knoop, ramp, Sarah Taylor, Van NguyenToday I drove home from the Mission in my wonderful Honda Element. I was driving up Illinois Street toward the little bridge (the one that still so horribly has a skunk mashed into the octagonal holes of the grate) to Cargo Street. I saw an elderly gentleman, probably late sixties, riding a skateboard in the [...]
Also tagged beards, elders, Illinois street, san franciscoGood Evening, Friends of Life.
Last Saturday I skated in my first contest. I felt very ambivalent about skating it, which is to say I felt terrified and curious. I actively avoid competition (besides a good, abusive dose of competition with MYSELF) in most realms, including my adult swim team. I never go to meets or [...]
Hello and welcome home. To me. Because I was not home and now I am!
Last Tuesday night I packed up in a VW van with four gentleman friends to go on a skate trip of Oregon. I’ve been on tour several times so in general I can handle being in a van close-quarters style with [...]
God I really lost steam with that rote recitation of my skateboard history timeline. When I feel bored writing, I can never figure out if it’s because I’m not being patient enough or if I should trust my instinct that it’s fucking boring. Well anyway.
Highlights of this past week spent with my skateboard include!! I [...]
I am a 38-year-old woman in skateboarding. I just passed my 2-year bowl-iversary on February 20th, 2011. I first stepped on a skateboard in December of 2008 when I was 36. A nurse friend of mine had been pushing around with another nurse in the parking lot of Kaiser in Oakland, California. That alone sounded [...]
Also tagged punching, womenIt’s been a long time since I hit ye olde blogge! Sorry for the interruption in service. I blame it on having full cable now. My intellectual self is taking a dive and my Mike & Ike-eating, popcorn-bloating, coconut water-drinking self is really unbuttoning ‘er pants and bloating the zipper down.
What is notable in life? [...]