Reflection I — At the height of Omicron with full hospitals after hella hard delivery into a grim and raging blizzard, A courageous soul Emerged fully into the World he inherits. And OMG is he mad adorable. Reflection II There is something sublime in watching my kids become parents; something so fine and grand and…

Traveling solo, and on a meandering course, can be rife with doubts, worries and detours. Sometimes, though, it’s important to not take nagging thoughts too much to heart because there may be an unexpected reward waiting somewhere. What is worth doing? I wanted to be in my destination of Salvo…

“While you’re here,” Cynthia said as she showed me through the house where I’d be living for the next three and a half weeks as official pet-sitter, “feel free to use the office, also known as the art room.” Their house was built the year before I was born. Seems…

The pandemic changed me. Who cannot say that? It changed so many things. So much, so many Beloveds. Gone. So much devastation, still. And yet, opportunity, if we will take it. Such are the teachings of trauma. I’ve wanted to write. Words would not come. Then there were…

I’d been traveling for work and fun. In late February 2020, I dashed to south Texas, first for a presentation in my hometown of San Antonio and then for a precious few stolen days in Port Aransas where sea turtles, oblivious to their proximity to extinction, floated amongst pods of…

Though she died six weeks ago, Marilyn Golden is with me in her wheelchair at the start of the ADA Accessible Trail in the Nags Head Woods Preserve. An eye-catching sign points the way into the forest. This is her doing. …

Fourteen years ago, I went into my son’s room to make sure he was up for school. He was 10 and had just started 5th grade. This meant he’d just started doing pre-teen things; for example, his clock radio (remember them?) …

The kindest, most generous take on the brouhaha surrounding Rachel Dolezal — the former head of the Spokane NAACP chapter who resigned after allegedly lying about her race — came from filmmaker Lacey Schwartz. She said it spoke to how much we want to talk about race and racial identity…