Beware the Etsy addiction
Fans of Etsy.com—the online buy/sell community for crafters, artists and the like, pronounced “et-see”—know how terribly addicting the website can be: Once you sign up and start to shop, it’s nearly impossible to stop. (Especially for PayPal users; careful, or your credit card will transform into something like Monopoly money.) What’s worse, [...]

There’s no pride in celebrating unhealthy, processed, corporate food, but there’s solace in coming clean. So here it is: I am literally dependent on Buitoni’s Pesto with Basil. Calling it “comfort food” would let me off the hook too easily: I need Buitoni Pesto at least once a week to simply maintain composure—comfort was abandoned [...]

And am I excused because I’d been drinking and smoking crack when I did it, back on the night when 1986 turned into 1987, standing on the side porch of a Long Beach home a few blocks south of Willow and Magnolia, with my friend Raymond Lewis, the former Verbum Dei star of the early [...]