Continue Reading “As real as it gets.” “As real as it gets!” were the words of Ruth Wikler, Clark College Foundation’s Director of Arts Programming, Partnerships and Philanthropy, when…
Continue Reading Dispatch from PDX. In case you wondered what a war ravaged city looks like, here are some samples from my inbox over the weekend. Just…
Continue Reading Getting off anti-depressants. Walk with me, into a fall landscape, the air filled with the trills of migrating sandhill cranes. We won’t get to see…
Continue Reading Apples and Honey. Shanah tovah umetukah – may the New Year be sweet. Given the current state of the world I even settle for tolerable….
Continue Reading A Way Forwards. Oregon Historical Society presents: Street Roots - Providing Income Opportunities and Independent Journalism as Portland’s Street Paper Since 1999. “You’ll be my first sale of the day!,” a woman in a wheelchair suggested to me, holding up a bundle of Street…
Continue Reading Status Symbol, anyone? Today you will be spared from politics. So much to work through that I decided against it all, just saying. You will…
Continue Reading Tired I am so tired of waiting,Aren’t you,For the world to become goodAnd beautiful and kind?Let us take a knifeAnd cut the world…
Continue Reading Left in the Dust. Want to walk with me? Meet me about 30 miles east of San Francisco, at the Alamo Oaks Trail, a small hilly…
Continue Reading Art on the Road: Some Thoughts on Heritage. When I brought my then boyfriend back to Germany for the first time, my father lovingly created a sight-seeing itinerary for a…
Continue Reading Reshuffling the Natural World. Vögel, höret die Signale! I don’t know about you, but when I go to aquariums or zoos there are a lot of conflicted feelings – from…
