Author: ps pirro

• Dust

  We walked across this desert once, red dirt rising to meet us, the impressions made by our bared soles no more lasting than the thin…

• Driving

  “The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. Don’t despise your own place and hour. Every…

• Scratch

  What do you do when the thing you’ve been doing doesn’t work for you anymore? If it ever worked at all. This is what I’m…

• That Does Not Make You Brilliant; It Makes You a Sociopath

  In her essay, “A Thousand Rivers,” award-winning film director Carol Black writes of Iain McGilchrist, a psychiatrist and neuroimaging researcher and author of the groundbreaking…

• If You’re Weary, Too

  “Look me in the eye and tell me you don’t feel the same, that you’re not weary, too, of waging war in heaven’s name.“ I…

• Home Maintenance

  I’ve been putting off changing the furnace filter. In home maintenance canon, that’s like skipping oil changes for your car. Not smart, but in my…

• Stitching

  We traveled south to be with friends, people we no longer see as frequently as we would like. It was a last minute decision. “Do…

• Blue

  “The world is blue at its edges and in its depths,” writes author Rebecca Solnit in her essay, The Blue of Distance. “This blue is…

• Being & Becoming

  “Only in childhood are we afforded the luxury of inhabiting our becoming, but once forced to figure out who we want to be in life,…

• Food is Too Cheap

  It’s the season of feasting, and food has been on my mind. At the co-op where I work the local produce on offer is of…