July 23, 2015 My scuba instructor was shot in the back. For some reason I always meet people like this. A person who’s been shot you can see the cords in his neck as he jerks upright at the sound of fireworks or other loud cracking sounds, head whipping to the side. G...
Dive Log 1 & 2 DESCRIPTION: Scuba Dive 1 & 2 Open Water Certification testing LOCATION: Lauderdale-by-the-Sea shore dive/ 1st reef offshore DEPTH: 12 & 17 feet August 11, 2015 Man I must’ve been breathing hard. I used up my air quick. I started out with...
August 14, 2015 The rain fell hard down the side windows as people had dinner with each other at Chipotle’s on Biscayne and 147th. I stared out the window. North Miami summer rainstorm at night. I wanted to eat outside in front under the awning but sometimes assholes...
Dive Log 3 DESCRIPTION: Snorkel dive from shore LOCATION: South Side of Dania Beach Pier, FL DEPTH: 10 feet ENCOUNTERED: Juvenile yellowtail snappers, scrawled tilefish, juvenile spotted drum, a large school of “baitfish”—didn’t know what they were TIME: 1.5 hours...
Thursday, August 20, 2015 I’ve been dizzy for the last 3 days and a little nauseous. I would stand up and feel like I could spin out of control. Then it would pass. It’s clearing up now. But you ever have those spells where for a moment you feel dizzy enough that you...
September 8, 2015 So let me just lay it all out: The pressure of impending climate collapse is overwhelming. The long, slow-boil terror, day in and day out, requires stamina. Activists who have been aware for a long time of all our problems, who have been working for...
Saturday, September 12, 2015 What is it with yellow-crowned night herons? This afternoon as I cleaned my apartment I thought about them. I hadn’t even thought about them in a while. They had stopped coming. What had they been about? At the end of 2010, when I began...
