Blueberry Muffins and Civil Disobedience
I don’t recall if I’ve written about this before, but one of my earliest coherent memories is one of civil disobedience. My sister Joanne and I are riding in the […]
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Out of My Comfort Zone
I’d already finished my shower and gotten dressed by the time my alarm went off at 5:30. Truth is, I’d been awake for a while, nursing that lump of dread […]
East Bay Interlude
And now, as Monty Python was fond of saying, for something completely different. Most of my “Roadtrip” posts of late have either been farm-related or announcements of yet another short […]
A Really Truly Empty Nest
Just a quick heads up for those of you who haven’t already gotten the news via Devon’s FB feed: as of this morning we are both theoretically and practically empty-nesters. […]
…and None to Go
The law is a bit imprecise on these things, but by my reckoning, at the moment the clock struck midnight and rolled into this new morning, Devon and I (both […]
Homecoming, Briefly
The house is full of teenagers again this weekend. M is back for the Thanksgiving weekend, and in her wake, the usual crowd of LARP teenagers have tumbled into each […]
Sara
“You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.” -Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book 2 I lost another friend this week. Yesterday I got to […]
Child Ballads and Most Horrible Cake in the World
One of the heuristics I’ve developed in my time on earth is to always be wary of things that try to define themselves in terms of what they are not. […]
Turkey Shoot
Ah, Earth Day. What better to do than rise before dawn and stroll through the countryside with a friend, marvelling at the wonders of nature and admiring the beauty of […]
Stories
The fox knows many things but the hedgehog knows one big thing. — Archilochus, 700 BCE. Most days, I feel a bit insecure about being a dilettante. I mean – […]
