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December 13, 2018
That Time I Dated Crazy
I accidentally stood Sam up the first time he asked me out, but only because I thought he was joking. For one thing, he was my coworker at the casino, and we were forbidden from dating one another. This rule—like all of Corporation’s rules—was born of company paranoia. A romantic relationship was likely to be a distraction, and distractions meant…
December 13, 2018
I Wrote This Book.
Cross-Section of a Human Heart: A Memoir of Early Adulthood comes out in paperback and Kindle on December 26 (Kindle version available for pre-order now). If you read my old blog, That Time in My Twenties, this book is that, only revised, fleshed out, and with a lot of new material. If you didn’t read my blog, it was pretty much…
November 21, 2018
DFW Airport (Dallas, TX)
I have been to Dallas Fort Worth Airport more times than I remember. It has been a way station since college, the layover between St. Louis and Lubbock, then between Los Angeles and St. Louis, between Los Angeles and Tyler, between Los Angeles and Fargo once, for some reason. The first time I flew through DFW, I was eighteen, and…
September 25, 2018
The Santa Clarita Public Library
I give the Santa Clarita Public Library five stars. For the sake of transparency, I will acknowledge that I give all library systems five stars, sight unseen, because from access to information to access to air conditioning, libraries quietly and relentlessly pick up the slack where many of our other institutions fail us. That said, the Santa Clarita Public Library…
September 10, 2018
The Cemetery in Terlingua, Texas
I have loved cemeteries all my life, and I still struggle to articulate what it is about them. I know when I was a child there was a romance to graveyards . . . to tragedy and mortal separation. But that can’t be the heart of it, because I’ve been both a writer and a human long enough to know…
September 5, 2018
Rooftop Cinema Club (Los Angeles)
Last Sunday night, I watched L.A. Confidential on the roof of the former CBS building in Hollywood, because that’s a thing you can do in Los Angeles. This particular rooftop movie experience was through Rooftop Cinema Club, a company that creates rooftop movie experiences at venues in multiple cities. When I’m left to dig up my own entertainment, I tend to…
August 27, 2018
Honu Coffee (Newhall, CA)
Honu Coffee 22722 Lyons Avenue Santa Clarita, CA 91321 661-373-9704 Open Daily 7 a.m. – 8 p.m. Honu Coffee is a winsome little coffee joint in Old Town Newhall. Wait. Let’s zoom out a moment for those who have no context for the phrase “Old Town Newhall.” In the northern part of L.A. County, there’s a city called Santa…
August 20, 2018
Point Dume Cove (Malibu, CA)
Point Dume Cliffside Drive & Birdview Avenue Malibu, CA 90265 I forget about Point Dume Cove, which is absurd, because it’s one of my favorite places in L.A. Most likely, it’s one of those places I let myself forget because it’s not down the street from me, and it’s not always simple to park there. You can pay $8…
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Abi Wurdeman is an author, screenwriter, and sidewalk poet.
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