what does an average middleclass person in the developed world have to really fight for? stand up for? do capital-S Something about? plenty ...

at a certain time of day, the shadows that fall from the southeasterly sunrise across the somewhat-elevated sidewalk behind our house line u...

almost six months ago, my attention was drawn to all the conflict in Palestine more than it ever had been before. a house down the road from...

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...

a not-so-random memory:  my first boyfriend, the redhead, putting a pair of earphones in my ears and pushing play on a Smashing Pumpkins so...

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

this morning we woke up at first light, well enough rested, and after wrapping myself up in a fuzzy robe, I sat outside while the dogs sniff...

not very long ago at all I actually stopped and read this poem, " Optimism " by Jane Hirschfield, posted ephemerally somewhere som...

yesterday, on a lark I looked at the date and trawled through my blogpost archive to find all the posts that just happened to be posted on F...

it has been almost three years since I last joined a public yoga practice. that's kind of a long time. but also not that long. I have go...

the last several days seem to have slowed down. August is only ten days old but those ten days have stretched themselves out so far, so lang...

today, at least according to his paperwork, is Hamilton's birthday. there are a bunch of August birthdays in my family. my paternal gran...

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

it was shady on the west face of Badger Mountain this morning. the inward corners between each ridge were especially cool. at the crest...

today, in no particular order, has included: hiking. even though it is the hottest week of the year so far and even the energetic puppy...

an old facebook friend of mine, a few days ago, shared this Martin Luther King Jr. quote about the inability of violence to bring peace . ...

there were at least a dozen robins out in our backyard a minute ago, chirping away and pecking things out of the damp dirt. I didn't n...

as of two weeks and three days ago, this is our new place. it is a very nice place, freshly painted with all the windows and light my p...

apparently Rosa Parks wrote recipes on the backs of envelopes too . really, is there anything else as useful to do with the back of an envel...

what if it were illegal to yell? part of me almost sort of likes that idea. criminalizing all the obnoxious, excess noise... 101 years a...