Random events

I was not going to write about this, but it keeps haunting me and seems fitting given my last post. This is what I know: Last Thursday morning at approximately 11:30 a.m., a woman I did not know and whose name I did not find out until the next day, took her own life by [...]

I board the No. 1 California bus heading back to my office from Fillmore Street after a meeting. The bus is not crowded, although most of the seats are taken.  I sit down next to a rather well-dressed, middle-aged woman who smiles at me as I settle in. She sighs and says, “Finally, we’re getting [...]

A couple of weeks ago, I started to notice an interesting phenomenon. I was listening to a morning program on the radio and heard a woman ask a question. Without waiting for an answer from the interviewer, she answered it herself. The question was something quite specific like, “Is the program going to improve the [...]

It is one frosty morning in late winter. A friendly young man pulls up in his truck and chats amicably to me as he pulls a lever that tips up the bed of the truck causing half-a-cord of firewood to fall, slowly at first, and then sliding and tumbling onto the driveway with a loud [...]