Continue Reading French Revolution meet my Pear Tree I spend a lot of hours these days in an easy chair facing a budding pear tree nestled in a tall bamboo…
Continue Reading First Signs of Spring Spring is officially on the calendar and sure enough, the first messengers, trilliums, are popping up left and right in the woods….
Continue Reading Of Kites and Camels I thought today is a good day to express my appreciation – love having you all around. Seriously. It is also a good…
Continue Reading A Case for Waves Installment #3 of visual representation(s) of current ruminations. Let the waves roll. Some of the most frequently uttered phrases I heard during the…
Continue Reading March Hares Installment #2 of a visual representation of current ruminations. Meet the March Hares. The photograph’s central characters are a bunch of bunnies, looking…
Continue Reading Mix and Match Let’s do some experimentation to bridge these weeks where I am not at full strength – brain and body alike – with…
Continue Reading Dark Frontiers Bits of house keeping: 1. Yesterday’s published version of the blog somehow dropped the attribution of the poem to its author. It was…
Continue Reading Squirrels on Ice Kissed by privilege. Not only do I live in a place surrounded by old-growth trees, but from my bed I look directly…
Continue Reading Stigmatism and Health This essay was supposed to be up on Monday, but we lost power for literally 4 full days, with no heat, no…
Continue Reading Spinach to the Rescue If you think my interests run eclectic, you might not be wrong. But why spinach? Let me count the reasons. Spinach belongs to…
