I Texted My Dad Today

6/11/2013

I texted my dad today ten years dead. Dad, I wrote, they’re boating the bay heeled over hard, and wet. …

A Murder of Crows

6/11/2013

I saw a murder of crows mob a raven today and thought of you, my cousins after cousins across the …

6/4/2013

A friend of mine has fallen in love with Naomi Shihab Nye, a poet, a Palestinian-American. This is something she wrote, …

3/26/2013

While I’m struggling to think through my five week trip through Southeast Asia, and not having it rise in the …

1/25/2013

Though war and armed assaults in Mali have been much in the news lately good things continue to happen. Here, …

12/12/2012

Begining to think about a trip to South East Asia, including 12 days in Vietnam, I turned to a friend …

10/5/2012

All of a sudden (it was hot, it was blue, we had finished a meal, in what would be soon …