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Some friends have shared this today on Facebook, and it is well worth posting here, too. I, Too, Sing America by Langston Hughes I, too, si...

We have been celebrating the sun here in northern California this week... since I am supposed to be ENJOYING my unemployment, yesterday, I d...

Here are a few more pictures from my day at the beach... I wasn't alone on the beach...it's a tiny ladybug, can you see it? Beach fi...

We call them peace officers, but it doesn't seem like we train them in peace. We justify their actions when they cause chaos, war, or vi...

My parents have decided that they have a house and garage full of clutter -- and that all of it is stuff that one of the five of us left beh...

The applications are all submitted. complete I wish I could say that I feel accomplished. However, honestly, at the moment, I just feel bere...

Last night I made it to the POC meditation session at the East Bay Meditation Center . Ostensibly I am trying to go as much as possible, bu...

I went to see Cadillac Records tonight after an intense conversation about all the emotions that have been swirling around in my head about...

My drive back from San Diego ended with a stretch along the Pacific Ocean. I love to cruise (at the speed limit) and scan the horizon for fr...

I am working -- not exactly diligently -- on Mondo Beyondo -- parts one and two... so I apologize for the radio silence. I can report -- hap...

why I insist on coming home for Christmas... and staying... yeah, there is something of a story there, but it is not nice or interesting, so...

Where do the days go? As I walk around, rather run around crazy, trying to get things done and feeling like if I just had two more hours in ...

So, I haven't been telling you, but I have been sporting a black eye for over a week... I call it my battered woman look, and that is aw...

I don't know what's wrong with me... honestly, I could spend some time psychoanalyzing myself but that would just be another form of...

Waiting for water to boil or the coffee to brew how often do we consider the tremendous amount of work going on in there? Impatience for tan...

I am in the last big push of the graduate school applications -- I hope this is it, at least, since it is only the first two that are actual...

I should be working on my graduate school apps... instead I am trying to get some drafts published... here's what's done so far: Tur...

But... I have decided to give this one update first: I am starting day FIVE of serious dieting today... I am proud to say I managed to stay ...

I was composing this post in my head as I walked to the bus terminal -- trying to figure out if compassion could be applied posthumously int...

No me gusta madrugar. And by that I mean at all. If I could spend all morning in bed, I would, quite frequently on a day off, I do. But, I h...