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Plans change and planes break down. As I rounded the corner on the freeway to the Oakland airport, I got a text from Southwest that my plan...

I was originally going to title this SAFETY but I am not sure that it is the best descriptor for how I am feeling. I...

As luck would have it, some friends went to a wedding this weekend ... but they left their lovely daughter with me. We are having fun ... ...

Run from what's comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. -Rumi

It was a whirlwind trip to New Mexico -- with no less than three different friends opening their homes to me ... Mostly I parked myself at...

One day sometime in the past two weeks, I saw these clouds in the sky. I travel what used to be the farm roads in order to avoid the f...

I am pretending this is any other day, sometimes successfully.  But my heart hurts. I was with my sister-in-law the other day and she sa...

The deep pain that is felt  at the death of every friendly soul  arises from the feeling  that there is in every individual  somet...

So, my parents have put off fumigating the house for so long because they are fearful, and not unrealistically, about the house being broken...

Technology and spaces with no internet along with the buckets full of work left me with no time to write while away. But here are some pic...

Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength. ~Ovid

I learned the hard way many years ago to not own much more than you can carry because someday you will have to give it up. The hardest for...

We have all heard that old adage, "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger."   And I am sure that many have either a...

This is at once an ode to late bloomers and an eloquent example of how it takes more than a dream and dollars to get folks over the...

One of the things that NPR gets so right is interviews and conversations.  The StoryCorps program is one of the highlights of my week even w...

If you want what visible reality can give, you're an employee. If you want the unseen world, you're not living your truth. Both wis...

I had a family-filled weekend including two large gatherings ... I don't know how many times each of us cried, or at least had eyes fill...

I couldn't bring myself to post this on Labor Day as it had been the traditional end of summer and call to school for children....

I am not near a radio enough during the "drive home" since I am usually not driving home from somewhere during All Things Consider...

Mom's garden, super dramatic cactus flower Our lives are like a vapor,  here for a while,  and then gone.   Every moment is...