I’d rather tell someone a joke than tell them my name.

I am at my ease arriving places solo.  Not only are there usually employees willing enough to let me engage them in conversation and thus shave a few minutes off their workday, but I also quite enjoy striking up interactions with strangers.  This is usually unexpected, as my purposeful determination to interrupt their solitude and/or…

company

The daily rotations of location may place us in the immediate vicinity of home, walking within a ten block radius, parking at a workplace, or traveled to farther reaches. No matter where we find ourselves, the people also present are the only ones who are. That to me is a singularly powerful fact with profound…

Entrance

I’m consistently intrigued by the somewhat telepathic energies of intermingled human psyches – an often unmarked or unspoken phenomenon that is nevertheless wholly present and influential. Crowds of strangers in particular present a conglomerate of social masks; unspoken welcomes or rebuffs; acts and actualities. As a chronic dresser-upper willing to be the only one dancing,…