Jack Fisher

My 47th April

I've really failed at this daily journaling thing. And in some ways, I've failed at many other things. I keep swimming a the surface, but recently I've starting to dive. A little deeper each time. And I feel like I've failed myself

Bay Area art girls

Alysa Liu won gold for the Olympics and I've been binging her story. What a story! I think people are really loving what she represents because it shows what humans are capable of when we have room to express ourselves. In a world of AI and Trump and

Fortysomething

Buy in bulk

My 78 year old mom came to visit, and we dropped by Safeway, today. She loves this store. They don't have Safeways in Texas. She insisted on buying 3 cases of bottled water (40 bottles each case). I grabbed the closest one I found, but those were $6.

Parenting

Appreciation

My daughter muttered, "Fuckyoufuckyoufuckyou" on Saturday when I was going over her allowance on Greenlight. Her mom was sitting right there. I think I'm the only person she would curse at. She knew it was bad, because she didn't say it loudly. But she

Gear

I think my fondness / obsession with having the right gear mirrors my dad's debilitating anxiety about every situation. The man is so risk averse about everything it's a wonder that he somehow captained a boat to escape Vietnam with our family and 200 other refugees. It&

Fifty Percent

One constant is that Madeleine is super competitive with me. If I want her to practice piano, run, draw, or do anything that requires effort, she'll muster up the strength if she knows that she's competing against me. After three years of piano, her teacher gave

Fortysomething

Dear Bingo

I hope in some small way, as we deal with commutes and spouses and kids and putting the dishes in the dishwasher and making sure the forks go with the forks and the spoons go with the spoons that we find the way back to ourselves?

Career

Things are fine

I'm still learning about all of this stuff, but seeing your kid sad because they don't know why they're different than other kids is tough.

Career

Just start

In this dream, the photo mode was on portrait, which I didn't want. So I switched it to photo mode and tried to zoom to about 1.2x. But the camera kept zooming into 5x, then 10x. Too close!

Twentysomething

End of the rainbow

So now what? What now, in a town where the weather drops twenty degrees at night? Where a fat girl with purple hair walks by a desolate guy who may or may not be homeless strolling along with a backpack on his shoulders in front of a pink house...

Art

The Road

But for a few of us, On the Road mattered.  Perhaps I was rebelling against myself, against a Protestant guilt, a strict family culture, a Sartrean existential need to define myself through the reflections of others – or just a desperate need to break out.

Twentysomething

Europe: A History

I decided to go back and explore Europe to understand its impact on my current areas of interest, namely the Middle East, Central Asia and India.