We approach the twentieth anniversary of my humble domain, rjgeib.com. It has been my creative home on the Internet. I have worked on it, then let it languish; its progress has mirrored that of my own life. My online life waxes and wanes, largely dependent on what is happening in my offline life. Extreme exertion in my professional life, for example, has often meant my webpage gets short shrift. But it is still here. Even as HTML has changed so much that many of my pages look distinctly antiquated on the mobile devices many nowadays use to browse the web. Many of my friends from the mid- or late 1990s who…
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To Be A Young Adult and To Be a Bit Lost
“To find oneself more than a bit lost — while disorienting and even frightening — is far from irremediable.” It was sometime in early 1997 as I walking westbound on Superior Avenue in Newport Beach, California. My sister and her then fiancé happened to be driving by, saw me, pulled over, and offered to drive me wherever I was headed. I was more than happy for the lift. I was badly hungover that morning, and 20 years later I can’t remember where they drove to or where they dropped me off. Why has this remembrance stuck with me so much for almost an entire week? Because I have been thinking…