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It was over so fast I wasn’t even sure it happened.  I was at the window at the bank.  There had been no line.  I was separated from the teller by a ceiling-high sheet of glass.  I noticed an industrial-strength can of Lysol on the counter next to her.  In the nanosecond between the time…

The text that began my day read:  “Please dear God tell me you’re still alive.” My friend Kim from back home.  “Lord,” I’m thinking, “what natural California disaster have I missed this time?  Earthquake? Fire? Kale shortage?”  You get these sort of texts often in our wonderful/volatile state. But the next one proved even more…

“There’s mud up there in the rainy season,” I hear myself saying.  “And lots of it.  So from now on, you’re driving us and that’s that.”  Anyone who buys a new car knows the drill for the first few weeks – park a block away at the market, no eating in the vehicle, get it…

I’m not a drug addict.  I mean, not a professional one.  You won’t find me in a burned-out Hollywood building waiting for some ne-er do well to bring my next red chicken fix. And even though most of the crowd I ran with in high school thought pot was the greatest thing ever, it always…

It all began with a tooth.  Beginning of June.  Cracked a filling.  The only filling I have.  My dentist, whom I adore because she loves to cuss and talk politics, holds a q-tip drenched in something so cold it’s smoking in front of her face and in her thick Iranian accent warns, “I’m going to…