at the end of last summer, the family gathered on the edge of Idaho and Utah to see my paternal grandmother off on her journey from this wor...

over the past few months I've been devouring audiobooks on the weekends. I basically listened to Stardust in one long stretch on a Sunda...

thinking about my grandmother lately, off and on, I sometimes puzzle over how close and also how distant she seems. her birthday is coming u...

since the eve of 2024 one month ago, it feels like so much has happened. some of it too fast, too soon, too painfully.  the grief of losing...

seasons of 90 days each. seems like plenty of time. one quarter of a full circle, fair time for each mood of the year. what was I wanting to...

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, ...

I am in between roadtrips at the moment. tomorrow we set off east, north, to the cold windy scapes of Chicagoland. I hope the trip is smooth...

last week the first cold snap of this autumn season came to town, frosting across everything and showering the night with hailstones. the ch...

thinking about going places. far away places. nearby places have their charm... but running errands is mostly tiring; walking the dog is l...

my latest LibriVox contribution-- The City of Din , by Dan McKenzie-- surprisingly made its final journey through the prooflistening stage r...

this is the sun-smeared peak of Thumb Butte, towering magnanimously above the Thumb Butte trail where we hiked today. thickly pine-scented, ...

with most of this year in quarantine and isolation mode, it seems unthinkable that it can feel so overwhelming. what's so overwhelming a...

they call this piece of geography The Granite Dells. from a distance, the rock formations look like orange mounded towers guarding the water...

last month, there was a funeral. it was the first of my grandparents' funerals that I've been able to actually attend. I worried...

I learned just today that the German word halten can mean in English to hold or to stop . this seems profound for some reason. the sente...

this week, we are baking and eating and family-ing in Chicagoland. Chicago itself, over to the east of here, has a famously wonderful city ...

I pulled my high school journal out of its place on the shelf last week, to look back at what I wrote on September 11, 2001. it's a ha...

earlier this week we drove in my little blue car through several mountained places, between majestic canyon walls, into valleys and out of ...

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...