Musings

So many conversations recently about how to enjoy what we can, even as the world continues its tumult. How we might laugh anyway, or rest anyway. I find […]

“…But listen now to what happenedto the actual trees;toward the end of that summer theypushed new leaves from their stubbed limbs.It was the wrong season, yes,but they couldn’t […]

Hope feels like a fragile, naive thing these days. Whenever something good happens, we are uncertain about whether to invest in that good, anxious that the next phone […]

First an apology: in my last email, dated Dec. 12, 2025, I celebrated the work of poet Rosemerry Trommer, a lovely thing to do, except that in that […]

I sat in a room of strangers last week, together for a workshop on writing and grief. We went around the room, that first night, sharing the name […]

If you look carefully in the image above you can see a floating cow, a pig with wings, and a red and blue brain (just below blue and […]

Thank you, Sharon Miller, for this photo. It represents so much of what we are all trying to live into these days…a blossom from the muck of it […]

In his recent novel,  I Cheerfully Refuse, author Leif Enger suggests that as global warming takes place we may find ourselves navigating the rising of bodies buried deep in […]

According to The Guardian, in 1990 there were 66 US billionaires; by 2023 there were over 700, an increase of more than 1,000%. I learned more about the […]

“If you can start the day without caffeine or pep pills, If you can be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains, If you can resist complaining and boring people […]