I was going to just grumble grumble grumble. Grumble about that silly movie Green Room  winning the Oscar for Best Picture ( see my very...

We are having such crystal clear days here, cold and bright and wintry. We are getting rain, too, and earlier this evening there were re...

So yes, the world is broken. We have fallen from the Garden. But this is just a reflection of our own broken relations. Instead of obse...

Old Lady Sophie Sophie's estimable private health insurance company, Blue Shield of California, has been sending out a number of ...

Have ya'll been listening to Jason Lehmbeck's and my podcast? I sure hope you are, but if you're not, you should start today...

I haven't written here in over a week, and I haven't visited many of your blogs. I have, mainly, been out of sight. I was he...

I haven't really looked at myself in a long time, but I think this is what I look like to my students, especially today when I sor...

dedicated to my comrades, particularly Sandra When my friends and family check in with me of late, I reply with the above Bitmoji. T...

My uncle has come to stay with us for a while to further recover from a head injury he suffered several weeks ago after a fall. He'...

We're getting rain here in Los Angeles -- buckets and buckets of rain -- and the most beautiful winter sunsets. That picture above wa...

Blackboard by Winslow Homer, 1877 I've completed my first week of teaching three English classes of eleventh and twelfth grade you...

I've got so many books that I've started wearing them on my back. Marie Kondo, mondo and all that jazz. Are ya'll watching t...

Street graffiti, Los Angeles, 2019 I finally got a job that I'm excited about, and it begins next week. I've been applying for...

Sunrise, Salton Sea, 2017 To the New Year With what stillness at last you appear in the valley your first sunlight rea...