Rami Ammoun, Downtown LA at Sunrise The lights are going out in Los Angeles, USA, And, my God, I am afraid of what the night will bring. May my fear be an overreaction. May I wake to find that this past decade of bad news has all been a bad dream. But I know that I am awake, And I know that Los Angeles, USA is no better suited to resist empire Than were Beijing, China — or Munich, Germany — or Nazareth, Galilee. In tanks or on horseback, With machine guns or swords, Empire ra

Reflections on Nature's slow, unhurried pace.

Listening to my life for moments of grace and beauty.

Musings on the landscape of grief and life.

A short story about familial love over the lifespan of a tree.

Memories from winter break 2023.

A moment in the life of a grateful auntie.

Where once the sea storms raged, a massive desert now silently grows; and other metaphors on life.

A Christmas reflection.

Memory and my mom.

Building courage and love, brick by brick.

On living well and recognizing small moments with outsized impacts.

I never paid much attention to wildflowers before one particular day in August of 2019.

A poem on grading student writing in English class.

Yesterday, some childhood friends made the drive up to see me in my new space.

I drove the New Hampshire seacoast route in my friend and COVID podmate's car last week. We had gone to Portsmouth for the afternoon and...

I turned and stepped In the music’s sway, Face to face and holding hands With a young man at my university.

From L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables, Chapter 16: October was a beautiful month at Green Gables, when the birches in the hollow...

In 1759, ten years after she died in childbirth, the physicist and philosopher Émilie du Châtelet published her magnum opus, a French...

"Perhaps not as patiently, we wait..."