Category: and so it goes

• 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…

• Desire

  I came home from band practice a few weeks ago with a little Meteor button accordion. It belonged to a bandmate. Now it belongs to…

• Not Everything is a Metaphor

  Last night I played a gig at a local club.  Midway through my last song, my voice vanished. Disappeared. Poof. Gone. It came back, intermittently, just…

• Stick by Stick

  Chip Ward is a big-picture thinker attuned to the importance of the small, local, persistent acts of reclamation and restoration. In this article he writes…

• Telling Stories

  I’m sitting next to Frank at our weekly gourd band practice. Frank is a journalist. He writes a local history column for the paper in…

• Rush Hour

  The man in the SUV didn’t understand the concept of the merge. He didn’t realize, or didn’t accept, that the onus was on him to…