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Yesterday we learned the Soulard Farmers Market was open. We have not yet gone to this market which is one of the oldest in the country in constant operation since 1779. I am apprehensive about anything that involves potential crowds so we ventured out, me with my N95, and Lynda with a surgical mask. (I […]
How long have we been doing this Sheltering-in-Place, quarantining ourselves, social distancing; not wearing masks, then wearing them? It seems like months. I suppose, like many, we slog through by routinizing our days. I read The NY Times each morning on my I Pad. The Times has adopted a new format on their I Pad […]
According to the CDC there are, more than 25 million people in the US who have asthma. Nearly eight percent of the population knows what it feels like to be unable to get enough air. And those of us with breathing disorders of one kind or another who have followed the Covid 19 story carefully […]
The following is an adaptation of a talk I gave many years ago. Vincent Gowen’s home lay at the southeast end of Bainbridge Island right at the water’s edge on Port Blakely. He served as the first Vicar of the new Episcopal Mission Church built at the head of Eagle Harbor after the Second World […]
I am considering doing a book tentatively titled, THE SIX LIGHTS: A PATH TO PURPOSE. Attached is the first chapter. I plan to explore six familiar events mostly from Luke’s Gospel as somehow bigger than their historical place and time. Each event tells us something about ourselves and helps us understand how we come to […]
A varied collection we are destination bound gathering below the asphalt and concrete, beneath the commerce and cabs the stainless halal food carts and steaming manhole covers, to wait in dimly lit warrens where the songs of dripping water and mournful saxophones reverberate within porcelain tunnels forever failing to tickle our melancholy. We have […]
Golden and full of light a tree appeared to me once in a dream asking nothing, except to behold its ineffable and transient beauty; it scorched the words and images, I proffered to contain and preserve it; now dross they melt into nothing leaving only inexplicable longing and tears that alone bear witness to this […]
I started a story a year ago and then put it away to work on something else. The first twelve pages, which I have included here, are really more autobiographical and don’t get to the story plot I was playing with at the time.I don’t know if the story is worth rescuing. We’ll see, as […]
I hardly recognize myself This peculiar new sensation of breathlessness and bedpans and solemn conversation. I have given up the alarm, awake most of the time, or so it seems, cataloguing thoughts from diminishing dreams. Like Nano*, I search for words Hidden among the gears of survival; Something important to say redeeming the effort […]
I have finished THE BLACK FOX OF BECKHAM and it is now available for purchase on Barnes & Noble and Amazon or wherever you buy your books. From the Cover Set in the small village of Beckham, nestled in the English countryside where fox hunting has been a way of life for hundreds of years, […]