Continue Reading Friday Haul: A serious warning, some good news and cartoons! It’s Friday – and all I have to say is: “Stay away from bagged lettuce!” Seriously, change your habit of purchasing bags…
Continue Reading Voices of Remembering A resolution to mark May 5th, 2025 as National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls passed the…
Continue Reading Back to bashful? By chance I encountered three artists across the last weeks who I was completely unfamiliar with. One lived in the 16th century,…
Continue Reading Sunscreen, fitted shirts and other lifesaving devices. So it turns out that anatomically modern humans (AMH) knew a trick or two that ensured their survival and evolution into Homo…
Continue Reading A Light exists in Spring. A Light exists in SpringNot present on the YearAt any other period –When March is scarcely here A Color stands abroadOn Solitary FieldsThat…
Continue Reading Hereness. There is a woman in my neighborhood who spreads beauty. She lays out blossoms and greenery into flower mandalas at a local…
Continue Reading Your very own Town Crier. Walk with me. That way we can talk and I don’t have to yell “Oyez, oyez, oyez!” like the town criers of…
Continue Reading The Repair of a Torn Civic Fabric. Today I want us to think through the connection between hobbies and Pope Francis. “What on earth,” you mutter, wondering if I…
Continue Reading Ghost Stories. As per usual, one thing led to another while I was wandering among the Victorian houses of Eureka, CA on my most…
Continue Reading A World not of this World. River Stories - New work by Kristie Strasen. “I like maps, because they lie.Because they give no access to the vicious truth.Because great-heartedly, good-naturedlythey spread before me a worldnot of…
