I spent a week in California (mostly San Diego) earlier this month. we did lots of beautiful and silly and fun things. twenty years later, D...

sometimes I bike to the pool at our community center. it's one mile away, down the road and around the corner.  are all the HOA fees (th...

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

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

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...

there are more miles on my car. there are more freckles on my face. more states on the list of states-I-have-visited-or-at-least-driven-thro...

my Friday began as ordinarily as any Friday. I waited at bus stops, sat in my office prepping for class, eeked a few moments of good class d...

my phone rang (and by  rang , understand that I do mean  buzzed silently in my pocket ) in the middle of the first panel of the conference I...

tomorrow I shall revisit the lovely airport where for weeks and weeks they've had this lovely Christmas display up, right in the middle ...

I move around a fair bit. I think I like it that way. I find newness very attractive. it's not always that I grow utterly tired of the ...

today I am saying goodbye to these, the third set of windows I've called home here in this town, at this place called Tech. I took a few...