photographer: Carl Jackson When I was a small child, I lay in the grass or up in the cherry tree and stared up at clouds, floating. I ...

"Sex appeal is fifty per cent what you’ve got and fifty per cent what people think you’ve got." I told my friend Mary v...

I took an UberX last night down to the Aratani theater in Japantown to hear Arundhati Roy, the great Indian novelist. The driver was o...

I spent most of the day yesterday in my head, not so much navel-gazing (as is my wont) as pondering the universe or as Oliver said when ...

Sophie at school photographer: Page Jackson Good Lord, I'm feeling blue. And anxious and agitated and lazy and enervated, all at on...

So last night, I stood on the steps of Los Angeles' City Hall with hundreds of people for a rally to support Planned Parenthood an...

I told you in my last post that I had the incredible experience last week of seeing a pod of orcas. I stood up in our small boat and too...

The Mermaid Pool where I swam laps Victoria, British Columbia The Poet and Me photographer: Carl Jackson My dear friend, the p...

Sunset Victoria, British Columbia This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every...

I say that the blue which is seen in the atmosphere is not its own colour but is caused by warm humidity evaporated in minute and...

Street Art Los Angeles I almost hit Jesus today. Of course at first he came as a Man. I mean -- I didn't know he was Jesus ...

Somewhere in Durham, NC, 1982 I recently found a bunch of letters from friends and lovers in a box at the back of my closet. I also fou...

It used to be that I pretty much did it all, and then I came on here and told it. It's all I can do these days to get a weekly pos...

I can hardly believe that my son Henry is finished with high school, graduated with honors and headed toward Gonzaga University in the fa...