The World I Live In I have refused to live locked in the orderly house of       reasons and proofs. The world I live in and believe...

I swam with whale sharks. Carl and I drove from Todos Santos to La Paz where we took a boat with five other people into this beaut...

Tonight the full moon rose over the top of a distant mountain as the sun sank into the ocean and made the sky orange. It was outrageous...

Two mornings now the cactus wren has woken me, but I'm not complaining because it's Mexican. I'm in Mexico. It...

Surround me, confound me with your boundless love --

Happy 24th Birthday, Sophie! Happy International Women's Day! an excerpt from my memoir-in-progress, But Mostly We Bend ...

Some Venus The folds of this ancient goddess' stomach. Her foot's low arch. A memory: When I hear the crunch of steps on g...

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...