I had imagined, out of tourist's innocence or vanity, having this town on Croatia's Istrian coast to myself.
When I arrive on the West Coast — pouring myself from the Greyhound bus, green with sickness, at twenty-two — I, this fount, am also untapped.
I love that I can, with a little walking and scrambling, have beaches such as Strangles and Tregardock on the North Coast to myself.
I cycled along the coast and found myself at an extremely posh marina with luxury houses and yachts.
But now, each summer, after a few days in our mossy rental on the Maine coast, I find myself, like that chimp contemplating the human skull, considering my position in the chain of being.
Meanwhile, those starting preschool this year at a government school can expect to have cost their parents around $57,455 by the time they get to the stage of wondering whether or not Dad will let them go to schoolies on the Gold Coast (speaking for myself, the answer will be, "no").
John Biggs, East Coast Editor, and myself will be holding office hours for the next two weeks in our new AOL Ventures office in NYC.
When the car was stopped along the Ventura coast, I found myself admiring the deep, rich Ventura Orange paint job.
If I have to skimp on my reading for a couple of weeks in order to get the writing done, I remind myself that I've already read more than most people do in a lifetime and let myself coast on that for a little while.
Moliere malgre moi (Moliere In Spite of Myself) West Coast premiere of Francis Perrin's one-man show about the 17th-century playwright; in French with projected English subtitles.
