Continue Reading Counting Coyotes It’s getting ridiculous. Here we live some 15 minutes away from the center of a medium-sized city, and yet it feels like…
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Continue Reading Rapelle-Toi! I’ve been to Paris, the proverbial city of love, three times in my life. The first visit, driving there all the way…
Continue Reading A Curtain of Clouds Walk with me. Make sure you bring the rubber boots which I, as per usual, forgot on Monday. It was…
Continue Reading Henk Pander – The Ordeal Ordeal: any extremely severe or trying test, experience, or trial. Synonyms: agony, anguish, calamity, distress, nightmare, torment, torture, trial, tribulation – Thesaurus.com Here’s…
Continue Reading The Snails The Snails by Samatar Elmi I mean, the analogy writes itselflike the onion in a grand conceitthough we really are like two slugsin a derelict…
Continue Reading Uneven Justice I was born in the year of the cop-out, double speak, dust bunny, group think, fairness doctrine, junk food, mass-market, neoconservative, split…
Continue Reading Of Courage, Consciousness and Coconuts. Phew, just in time. Needed a birthday present for a young woman dear to me, an avid and thoughtful reader. Having waded…
Continue Reading Seclused in Light by Thomas Lux It’s dusk. My sons are tall. And one of them became a father this week, starting a new cycle of…
Continue Reading A Path towards Transformation On a dry day last week I walked among the cornfields, aware of climate change with the water levels in the ponds…
