Category: and so it goes

• This Thing Ain’t Over

  I stopped wearing a pandemic mask in mid-May. I’m wondering if that was a mistake. The CDC and reliable public health experts advise that fully-vaccinated…

• The All Star Game

  I’m working long shifts at the radio station this week, getting an overdose of NPR news and current events as two members of our on-air…

• Fixing Things

  “When I think about the most wearying thing about becoming middle-aged, it’s that you are the only one who can fix things – there is…

• Simply Sit Down

  The most important undertaking of my day is to simply sit down at my desk and pick up my pen. Without this elementary act I…

• Hiding the Dead

  When I first learned of the graves, understood the likelihood that there are so many more to be found, hundreds of children at each site,…

• Timeless

  A few weeks ago I wrote about my Gap Month, and how the simple process of asking a question and listening for an answer has…

• Barn Music

  I was out at my friend Jubilee’s last Friday, sitting in her big barn, listening to three women make music on the stage. One on…

• Intentional Community

  From the moment I first learned of them, I’ve wanted to live in an intentional community. I’m not starry-eyed about it. I don’t yearn for…

• Hello Summer

  Where are we and why are we in this handcart? Never mind that the Solstice is still a week away. It’s full-on summer in the…

• Home

  How quickly we move from the season of the furnace to the season of the air conditioner. What a narrow range of temperature we civilized…