Jana puts down a teapot in the center of her perfectly round table. I move my chair closer and sit up straighter. Jana has a…

In the Fall of 1969, the first edition of the Whole Earth Catalog came out. It’s a fantastic thing and it deserves to be written…

My brilliance has turned into folly. I brilliantly supposed that my sons and daughter would be interested to read what I wrote, so I emailed…

How very very odd that, in the middle of the disgraceful bollux that Trump has gotten us into with Iran, with debts, with our becoming…

The body is perhaps the most brilliant thing about being mortal. Composed as it is of infinitely complex systems, veins, muscles, joints, bloodstreams, nerves, corpuscles,…

Oy. what is this hiss? this brew? this haha of whispers. shadows. ease. i feel such slick in this world. the ooze of slickness. can…

The summer night smelled sweet as a birthday cake. Saturated with the perfume of the oleander and honeysuckle that thickened the forest walls, bound into…

When Howard’s parents brought him and his 4 siblings to Yosemite National Park, he wore a tie, which was well-documented by his father’s photos of…

Every year, in late August, public School Districts hold welcome back staff development trainings. During these things there are usually ‘ice breaking’ activities, pep talks,…

Wanting this forever. As if. Wtf. They had a texting game among the four of them. If they wrote 'wanting this forever' it really meant…

’Twas the night before Easter, And as was his habit, In the deep hours of morning There sat an Old Rabbit On the floor by…

Our organizational strategies over here in Alameda are pretty basic, very low tech. I make handwritten lists on a steno pad and my husband largely…