Category: creative

Notes from Isolation: Living

May 26, 2020 | creative, essays, pandemic

Even amidst the strangeness, daily life eventually becomes daily life again.

Notes from a Pandemic

Mar 30, 2020 | creative, essays, pandemic

There were doubtless experts out there who were expecting this. But I certainly wasn’t.

Well Being

Feb 7, 2020 | creative, essays

Reclaiming wellbeing in the wake of a long duty and the face of late middle age.

The State of the State

Jul 1, 2019 | blog, politics and religion

Finding a little relief in the Democratic primary and the Supreme Court.

Some Random Thoughts at the Beginning of 2019

Jan 4, 2019 | creative, essays

Hopes – not resolutions – for a quieter, happier year.

Driving the Future

Sep 21, 2018 | creative, essays

The experience of buying – and owning – a Tesla.

Speaking Freely

Aug 23, 2018 | creative, essays, politics and religion

Some thoughts on communities, free speech and bad faith, and the containing of toxic influences.

Last Days

Jun 8, 2018 | creative, essays, family and loss

Ten years after a nearly fatal hemorrhagic stroke, six years after she and my father’s combined decline resulted in a radical uprooting of her life, my mother’s often painful journey through old age is ended.

At the Zoo

Jan 11, 2018 | creative, photos

Opportunities – with a side order of doubt – for photography at the Santa Barbara zoo.

what you made me feel

Oct 16, 2017 | creative, essays, politics and religion

The dark undercurrent of far too many women’s lives.

Back in Big Sur

Oct 15, 2017 | blog, politics and religion

On a Wednesday whim, a trip to celebrate Big Sur’s return to the wider world.

A Day for Eating the Poisonous Mushrooms

Jul 20, 2017 | creative, stories

Thoughts on risk and its avoidance.

Category: creative

Elegy for a Heart Worn Smooth by the River

Another Pandemic Year

Notes from Isolation: Planning

Reflections on an Anniversary

La Cuesta Less Encantada

Unbelieving