The Ghost Ship fire was five nights ago. When I started to write this, helicopters were circling over the vigil at Lake Merritt. I know someone who perished there — not well, but we'd been in each other's orbits for more than a decade. In that way, the tragedy feels very close. At the same time, it feels very far away, or at least universal: every third news story on NPR this week has been about the blaze, the dead, the missing, the scene, the relative …
Archives for December 2016
A Quick One Since She’s Been Away (Adventures in Temporary Enforced Sobriety Part 8)
I did not sit down to write an "Adventures in Temporary Enforced Sobriety" post. I sat down to work out my feelings about the Oakland Ghost Ship fire. But before I can do that, I feel I should briefly update you on that pervasive personal dryness situation, now just over a month away from its conclusion. So here's how it's been going since I took time off this blog to work on a different writing project for the month of November. On Election …