“Repair” is a word I learned in a new context when I was a Special Education teacher. In that context it related to the ability of a person to make things right with another person after he/she/they have done something…

Assuming our government, our country, does not explode and drown—from fire to ice—like the crash of January 29, assuming that, that it just “falls apart” – whatever that might mean,” can it be repaired? When my son was little ---…

There was a chill in the air. Somehow there was always a chill in the air. Winter lodged itself into the marrow, and from there every blood cell carried it afield till the very core was but a faint pulse…

When the pandemic hit, Jackson was a month from graduating but CASE sent everyone home. He quarantined in our driveway for two weeks in our junky RV we take to Burning Man. Asya was still a sophomore and couldn't go…

there is a healing that's needed, a reckoning. it will start with listening. hard feelings must have their say. it will start with feeling. it will start with voicing. it will need rest. it will need a deep honoring of…

Will I ever be able to quit my day job? At this rate, things are grim. I am almost 68 years old and still working full-time with many of my coworkers, who are a bit or a lot younger than…

Several years ago I resolved to write every day no matter what, even if all I wrote was about the weather or the company or my health. I have had such days, many. I suppose I am so superstitious that…

She knew it was the beginning of the end, that first time she had to work so hard to reach organism that the achievement was crowned on the shocking crest of an insistent pounding above her temples, the new price…

If suffering is the essence of life— no growth without stimulus, spaciousness without unraveling, freedom-from without instigating irritant, pearl without grit— what does that make me after the assaulting wave recedes? Where does the essence of friendship go after we…