I started writing a post about a trip I took last weekend – a trip down an online rabbit hole into the darkness that is emerging in our world, seemingly at every turn. I’m so compelled to understand human behavior in the big scheme of things, that I just can’t help...
My Mama and I have just returned from four days in Brooklyn, New York City and New Jersey. The catalyst was the opportunity to see Joseph Raffael’s art in- person at an exhibition in a gallery in Chelsea. But the real heart of the visit was the chance to spend time...
I wasn’t raised with poetry. Though, we did have Mother Goose and I remember reading Robert Louis Stevenson’s “A Child’s Garden of Verses” at a friend’s house. But apart from that, Mom read us story books. I had two friends from middle childhood through high school...
My hope and intention when I decided to hike 60 miles up and back to the summit of Mount Whitney this summer was to give myself a physical test. I wanted to know the strength in my body. Though it did take stamina and I ran out of energy on day 5 because I didn’t...
Annie and Eric’s two bears. Last weekend poking around online, I came upon a New York Times interview of Tom Hanks. It’s entertaining and charming – like he is. He’s just written a book of short stories – Nora Ephron was his writing coach; she admonished: ...
I took this photo on the side of Highway 12 in Sonoma. It just happens that I’m painting it now. We’ve been living with wildfires in California for as long as I can remember. The house my family lived in from the time I was a toddler was across the street from...
