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...
by aaron | May 10, 2014 | reviews
On this day in 1999, Shel Silverstein died. If you were ever a child, or the caregiver of one, odds are good you know Silverstein’s many poems and drawings from books such as The Giving Tree, Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, and others. To this day...
by aaron | May 3, 2014 | Essays
Just over 90-years ago a young man lazed absently about the streets of downtown Seattle. A would-be writer, he’d recently lost his job as a journalist and was looking for adventure. He came across a notice in the local paper about a trip to Alaska aboard the...