Essays
A Love Letter To My Pod
The word “family” has always been a flexible word. I happen to like the fact that “family” is very much a self-defined word, and every person has a slightly different context for it, but calling Read more…
Reading List
Reading List: We Are All Our Own Works in Progress
I’ve been wracking my brain for the last week trying to figure out how to complete a poem. Right now, it’s about 10 lines long, and I have been keeping it in my “works in Read more…
Essays
The Power of Your Story
In a system where data-driven is the lifeblood of business, of corporations, of education, of communication, a story provides personalized color and context. It is less stripped-down, less numerically based and less “big picture important” Read more…
Reading List
Reading List: “No” Is A Complete Sentence
In my wanderings around the web, I often find myself in themes and topic areas that end up tying together in interesting ways. This is a compilation of the blogs, books, and reading around a Read more…
The Mini-Farm
Playing Catch-Up With Slow Time
This house does not have “history” in that deep-time, thick sense that a house hundreds of years old has. It doesn’t ooze history out of its walls and have hidden nooks and crannies with generations Read more…
The Mini-Farm
Spring’s Creative Destruction
When we moved in to this house last year, it was at the very tail end of fruit season, and we knew there was a lot of work to be done. Now that winter is Read more…
Poetry
Spring Equinox Sunrise
This morning’s sunrise Kissed as it was with Cold wind and colder frost Was also a sunrise Of warmth and promise A sunrise to mark the balance Of the quiet slumber of death That is Read more…
Poetry
Video: The Question Why
This poem and video are dedicated to all of the people that try and find a “reason” for someone else’s identity.
Poetry
Video: Askew or Askance
We’ve all stepped on a lego, and “askew” is the best way I can come up with the describe that hangover.