Pause
I'll be away from blogging and other social and writing networks for a brief while. My younger brother is sick. I need space and time to worry. Hope to be back soon.

Revisiting Sequoia
I worshiped at the cathedral of giant trees twice: once in 1985 and again in 1994. When I unearthed these old, pre-digital photos and scanned them onto my hard drive, Buck and I looked at them together,where they were raised...

41st Festival of the Trees
You love trees. I know you do. We climb them. We swing from their Tarzan vines. We make pretend houses in them. We sit beneath them and cry. We even conceal ourselves within their sheltering foliage, sit on a pretend...

Lemon Meringue Clouds
Meringue. I am flying in a Boeing 767 American Airlines plane, flight number 52 from Chicago to Glasgow, looking out the window while most of my fellow passengers are sleeping off a viewing of Shrek 2 and City Slickers. The...

Our Lady of the Manicures
Sometimes you have encounters that don't have any neat explanation. Seems like I have more than the average person. Take yesterday, for example. While Buck was in with a doctor for some routine exam, I sat in the waiting room...