I haven’t had many memorable Valentine’s Days in the first quarter century of my life. There were the ones in elementary school with chalky candy hearts and valentines crafted out of construction paper. In college, there were a handful of singles’ nights involving pizza and poker with the guys. However, Valentine’s Day 2014 blew all the previous ones out of the water because of one particular event. In the following days, I felt like a celebrity in the wake of a revealing scandal. There were paparazzi everywhere; they were stalking outside my office building or hiding in the bushes waiting to ambush me. Everyone wanted to ask me one specific question, “Why 2.25?”
California Dreaming
I was on vacation to LA this week, so my reading was condensed to a few long-form reads. Both the … Continue Reading