A visit to the Pacific Coast and the Redwood Forest left me with a sense of wonder and the inevitable acceptance of what Albert Camus was trying to say.
We are here. And that is all. Choose wonder over meaning.
Every year, at the confluence of Halloween and Diwali, I chuckle. I set out my witch and my diyas, my purple spotlight and misting cauldron…
In the left corner of my garden stands a young red oak tree. It was a small thing when we moved in three years ago. …
Tall, decaf, no sugar, Pike’s Place with extra milk. The overpriced, heavily chemicalized, yet aesthetically sold coffee that lends an identity to the blandest of…
“Never travel with someone you don’t love”, said Hemmingway. And since all those I love were either busy, sick or uninterested, I went with the…