we have been over my haphazard recipe cataloging skills before. did I ever think I'd need to change my habit of just sorting through a ...

I love being barefoot. I love the feeling of clean carpet or tile or concrete under my feet. love walking on cool grass or warm sand or slic...

the stars in the winter seem brighter, or shinier, or at least more , possibly because there is more night for them to shine in. yesterday, ...

yesterday it snowed for hours. so we opened the blinds and pulled aside our gauzy curtain to watch the flurry of sparkly white magic blow ar...

these are photos from the past. same season, more or less, but last year. at least close enough. autumn. such as autumn in Louisian...

the local public library is doing free Monday night yoga this summer, led by one of the proprietors of this local yoga place that I haven...

as coffeeshops go, Greyhouse is a pretty nice one. it gets crowded, but the ambiance is great (all that brick and art, and the big windows) ...

no courses to describe this time around. just teaching some of same old things, working on learning how to be a real academic. this is t...

my current journal has completely blank pages. which means I use it as a sketchbook every now and then. sketches are useful both for rejuvin...

sometimes, though not so much lately, I feel like I am fighting inspiration off with a stick--making great efforts to do one thing at a time...

eight days and a bit until a new year. I have dozens and dozens of things to blog about. I have photos all lined up from my Blue Apron ad...

one thousand blogposts. it would be cool to make a chart or map or diagram of them all. I found these old sketches last week in old noteb...

it is the season of fireflies. the intermittent glinting of those little bugs is one of the most marvelous parts of living in this sticky, e...

I think it is a cardinal there building a nest outside my bedroom window. she flies away when I move too suddenly, so it's hard to get...

I picked up Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet for a few moments at a party in October. sometimes, I behave rather anti-socially at partie...

puzzles make very neat metaphors. much like black boxes , the concept could be hiding almost anywhere. and like so, so many other words ( wa...

finals week has ended. semi-frantic emails from my students about their grades have begun. I am still in the middle of the last bits of ...

adventuring takes effort. resources. time. it means pausing the usual and taking up with unknowns. when I travel, almost everything shift...

for a long string of months my flashbacks have been looping through a single three week section of my semi-recent history. blips of Eastern...