Growing Younger, Day by Day, a Gift
I just celebrated another birthday and thought I’d share with you again something I wrote a few years ago. For …
Category Archives: Creative Nonfiction
On Herds, Husbands & Being in Love
Serendipity, it’s sometimes called. Those happy coincidences that lead to some unexpected pleasure or insight. Or synchronicity. Those meaningful encounters …
A Deer Screams — Beauty & Brutality at Home and the Hills of Vietnam
The most horrifying sound I’ve ever heard came one night soon after we moved here. A scream of pure terror …
Multiple Layers of Reality in Film, and in Us
In several of his films, Ingmar Bergman plays with the notion of multiple layers of reality. This can be seen …
To Hu-Mor, or Less? That Is the Question
Last week I was questioning whether my blog had become too serious. To even ask such a question, of course, …
Struggling to Blog
I’ve been struggling to find something to blog about this week. Actually I spent half a day yesterday working on …
A New Tenderness Toward This Body
Crossroads by Louise Glück My body, now that we will not be traveling together much longerI begin to feel a …
“More to Me Than Time Allows to Be”
I wrote this years ago, a kind of declaration for a state of being with which I passionately identified, although …
Landscapes of the Mind – Six Singular Experiences
It’s all about the mind, of course. All experience filters through it, the outward and inner, nature and the art …
Brushes with Blackness, 1
All of us who are white in America were born into a country steeped in racism. Even for those of …
