Yesterday I went to a seminar titled "Empty Nest Syndrome" and learned approximately nothing, but it felt good to si...

I'm up too late, but I've been playing around with this post in my head all day, wondering whether and if I'd write ...

Just in case you haven't, here's the link to our latest podcast. For new readers, my friend and co-host Jason Lehmbeck and I hav...

The title is not a cry for it. Help! On help I learned recently that Sophie was eligible to receive a home health aide, but I felt...

The world is in this room. This here's all there is and all there needs to be. Sethe, from Beloved   It seems like everyone is ...

It's hot. Here's a poem. Heat BY  DENIS JOHNSON Here in the electric dusk your naked lover tips the g...

Sunset at Allison's Twin Peaks, CA July 2019 is poetry, and it's not what I write but what I want to read, words float...

I'm not going to fix the "s" thing, so you'll have a little game today, I guess, this lazy Saturday afternoon. Both b...

A lot of you have been around, reading the old blog for over a decade, so this may come as a surprise that my Henry is 21 years old toda...

Children do not belong in detention centers. "Detention centers" appears to be a more acceptable term than "concentratio...

I took 24 hours and left with Carl on Sunday morning for Ventura and a boat that took us to Santa Rosa Island, one of the remote, unin...

Reader, we are fine so far after two of the biggest earthquakes we've felt in the twenty years I've lived here. Last night I went...

Children and workers are seen at a tent encampment recently built near the Tornillo Port of Entry on June 19, 2018 in Tornillo, Texas.   G...

The light in Sophie's bedroom in the late afternoon is incredible. I'll walk by and just stand there staring at it and her and w...