Continue Reading Possible Worlds. Last week I came across a short interview with some notable writers all focused on the climate crisis. Rebecca Solnit, Thelma Young…
Continue Reading Women and Words Layli Long Soldier’s (Oglala Lakota) first full-length collection Whereas (2017) won the National Books Critics Circle award and was a finalist for the National Book…
Continue Reading Women and War A bit of housekeeping first: this website had crashed and it took more than a week to get it fixed. Sorry for…
Continue Reading Breasts and Beyond. “When you find out that you are ill, your priorities are shattered. One moment you are in a boat, and the next…
Continue Reading Seeking Distraction Walk with me. Walk, I said, not run, I can’t keep up. Running would make me tired, though, helping with sleep….
Continue Reading Enlightening Legos Having written almost enough to fill a weekly quota on Monday, I figured today I’ll share someone else’s observations – conveniently offered…
Continue Reading Call for a Commons: New Directions at the Columbia Gorge Interpretive Center Museum “History is who we are and why we are the way we are.” – David McCullough, American historian (1933- 2022) *** I’m curious: how…
Continue Reading Seeing Red Last night I watched a movie, Tár, Todd Field’s 2022 film starring Cate Blanchett (fabulous performance) as a famous female conductor whose…
Continue Reading Double Standards. On days when I cannot control the chaos in my brain, I sometimes turn to my desk drawer and tend to the…
Continue Reading Stardust “There is in the universe neither center nor circumference.” – Giordano Bruno, On the Infinite Universe and Worlds, 1584. JUNE 9th, 2023 was…
