Most of the time this feels finished — this space. I arrived here tonight in search of a particular piece of writing, and stayed a while. Re...

Although it is not impossible to make toast at work in the absence of a proper toaster, it is indeed challenging. In this post I hav...

The Gulf Stream is waning, which has showered upon us in the great northwest of the United States a pressure system which seems stuck on HOT...

As my son lingered at the door on his way out after Sunday dinner, the conversation shifted to ectomycorrhizal fungi , or, in layperson...

April. Impossibly April. Pondering, as always, the mystery of time passing. The ephemeral nature of everything experienced. Jim Harrison, ...

I rummaged in the basement until I found the microscope that was a gift to my sons from their grandmother all those many Christmases ago. No...

It's been a week of tousling winds, and armloads of pink-fluttered branches are on the ground. Despite the passing sadness ...

The Swiss chard is beginning to leaf out, and I snipped a handful of red-veined leaves, slivered them into a chiffonade, added to a green sa...

Every day there are a few less logs on the parking strip and a heap more sawdust. I imagine someone comes during the workday hours and chain...

This old beauty came down yesterday, attended by ropes and chainsaws. I walk by it every day, and mourn its death. I leaned into the giant l...

Been ruminating of late on the ordinariness of most days — every day, really. The quotidian, the expected, and the realization of expectatio...

We lost power Saturday evening for about an hour — dead in the middle of a dark winter night. I was upstairs on my computer when everything ...

I dreamed that a two-tone blue cat came to live with me. She was a deep dark blue with a large sky-blue patch over her shoulders. My mother ...

I want to be a moss farmer and I want the farm to be at the end of the road in the second photo, just beyond the line of trees. (The second ...

This afternoon I put the last of the glass that's shipping out tomorrow in the "kitchen kiln",  the tail end of 200+ pieces, e...