If you’re in a bad mood today, let me tell you why. It’s Tuesday.

Tuesday has no raison d’être. If your unfamiliar with that term, look it up. It’s Tuesday after all and you feel like shit…might as well learn something. Continue Reading »

I noticed the other day that I was receiving several visitors to my website who were from France.  I do have several friends in France but I have not written anything specifically about France so I found it beyond coincidence that these all occurred around a similar time. 

There were several visits to my article Put Some F*@cking Clothes On, writings about a straight man’s experience in San Francisco.  Continue Reading »

(Read Contacting Paulo Coelho… to learn the background of this email)

Dear Paulo Coelho,

In The Alchemist, you mention that “…when someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.” Continue Reading »

(click here to read part I of the story)

David knew what that normal life entailed.  He had lived it the past 5 years.  At 28, he thought, if I go back now, that will be it.  I will probably never return.  And he was probably right.

A traveler who returns home from his journeys always wants to travel again.  Perhaps he need not travel to the same physical place, but he will want to travel to recapture the feeling, the spirit, the adventure of meeting new people and having new experiences each day.  He wants to, but he probably won’t. Continue Reading »

 It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.   Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

I am seated in South America writing.  Would I be seated here writing Contacting Paulo Coelho were it not for The Alchemist?  Probably, but not certainly. Continue Reading »

My friend “rented” the movie Mr. Brooks last night. The dance clubs were a-calling so we were only able to see the first 15 minutes. We will watch it later today.

I have seen the movie Mr. Brooks…and I haven’t. Continue Reading »

“Put some f*@cking clothes on!” I yelled in the locker room at the gym.

“We’re not all gay! I don’t want to look at you naked. You’re hairy and disgusting.”

Such is the life of a straight man in San Francisco. Continue Reading »

When someone has no good reason to say something, they might be saying more than you think.

As I got to thinking who would win the November elections (Barack, Hillary, McCain) today, I thought of the words John Edwards spoke to Wolf Blitzer while he was still in the race…”I am the most electable of the three of us in the general election.” Continue Reading »

Barack Obama, Jack Bauer, and Vicky’s Father

“He’ll have you be a Communist before you leave this house,” Vicky’s mother said to me as I entered their house for a weekend stay in Paysandu, Uruguay.  She was referring to her husband, who is a member of the Frente Amplio party in Uruguay.  He was also tortured. Continue Reading »

Hillary’s Hyprocrisy

I awoke, admittedly a little worse for the wear after last night’s St. Patty’s festivities, to this article on CNN:  Clinton says she’s only candidate who can end war.

Hillary is George Bush in reverse. Continue Reading »