He spent much of his afternoons on walks.

Around campus and along the main strip. The early part of the day when he could nurse a coffee were his favorite part. Once the sun started going down feelings grew heavier within him. Have to find someplace that he can call... he...

D.W. spent much of their days on a computer.

Assigning human readable names to data. Assigning human readable names to operations that manipulated data.

The firm that employed D.W. compensated well. They could afford to order anything they wanted to eat and have it show up at their door. They had not...

One day she realized something.

And after that her days of finding meaning at the bars were over. She had now found truth.

Only... she had to let the others know about this truth. There was more to life than going out to bars. More than just getting drunk and hooking up....

Three minutes without oxygen and you're dead. Fly too close to that time and your brain's toast.

Three days without water and you're done. I always wondered why  Walter White and  Jesse Pinkman didn't just dehydrate their first murder to death?

Most people can go about 2 months without food.

After that everything...

During many long walks on cold nights I remember proclaiming to drewbaca_ on long walks that I feel no sense of loss in the fact that I spend so much time away from my parents.

"You and I are on journeys. Sure we love...

Most of our energy is spent on what-ifs instead of what is.

I think it's because we believe we can predict the future. Prevent calamities and participate in moon-shots.

But trying to prevent a future calamity won't make it any less unlikely. Trying to predict the next moon shot won't ensure your...

When you were new in town you had to prove yourself as quick as possible.

Roddy didn't have large hands, but he had a crazy temperament. Calm one moment standing next to you lending you a cigarette on a cold day, mashing some random guy's face in the next.

See it was...

The thing you know you want to say is probably the thing you will write most poorly about.

The thing you don't know yet but feel is the thing that will come out best.

At the deepest level writers don't enjoy the craft because it allows them to express. That is a...

She showed up to town a day early.
This surprised me. I was used to her being fashionably late wherever she went.

Final Friday, some no name party at a no name  cafe out in the middle of nowhere. Why did she come out such a way for this?

She drove her  Subaru...

I found you in a  jazz bar.

They had been playing jazz that night. Duh. 

Camel was what I was puffing on. You had a cigar.

I felt like Zelda and thought you could be my Francis. In fact I thought you could be my  Gatsby . You were from the...