Never Forget
There’s a picture of me, my sister, and my mom on top of one of the World Trade Center towers. I think I’m maybe 8. I keep thinking I should digitize that,...
Kicking Ants
Ants. They’re amazing until they’re not. The not usually happening when they’ve breached the perimeter and discovered that you’re less than careful with how...
It's Closer
Something about the Indigo Girls always spoke to me. Raised as I was in a cult-adjacent church (adjacent because we never went full robes and compound, but...
Safe Space
They want to destroy safe spaces. Replace them with fortresses, ruled by fear. Fear of violence. Of the outside. Fearful of the other. In their world, safety...
Deer Sign
When whitetail deer get spooked, they run. Because when you’re a deer, options are zero. No fight or flight. Just. Flight. And their tails go up to let other...
The Mulch Pile
I take a walk most days. Same route, about the same time. Helps me get out of my own head, out of my own way. It’s in the neighborhood, so not much changes....
We Are Family
When you’re here, you’re family. That was Olive Garden’s slogan until 2012, when they decided that was too catchy and paid someone a lot of money to come up...
Hates
“I am everything liberals hate.” The distillation of the political divide continues, this time via a bumper sticker in the rear window of a pickup truck that...
Delayed
If today were a baseball game, there’d be a rain delay. A pause in the action until the weather clears up. But life isn’t baseball. We play, rain or shine,...
Trimming
There are bushes in the backyard. They were planted for two reasons: They can survive Texas heat.Deer don’t eat them. And they’ve grown, remarkably well....
Falling
Summer’s leaving, doing so, as it does every year, with the first hint that cooler weather is coming, a break in the unremitting heat to tell us that winter...
Presence
We’re always going somewhere. We miss being anywhere. And end up nowhere. This is part of The 100, 100 posts in 100 days.
Possum Kingdom
Learned today that if you see a baby possum by itself, best to take it to a rescue organization, because it’s mom is gone. Not dead, although that’s a...
Hunched
Trust the hips. Shakira wasn’t wrong: they don’t lie. I don’t trust mine. Means I hunch my shoulders when I’m doing kettlebell cleans. Trying to chase the...
Informed
Informed. I’d like to think that I am. But why? Is it to make better decisions? Learn something about myself or the world? Or is it so I can be part of The...
Pivots
There’s a process for anything worth doing well. Steps to take, points of performance, the occasional “hack” as you progress and learn ways around those...
Excused
Boundaries. Good fences, good neighbors. Build a wall. Because we need limits. Perspective. Scope. And protection. From the world. From our tribe. From...
Simple
Kettlebell. Cannonball with a handle. I have the pandemic to thank for the growing collection in the garage. More than I need, and the epitome of “Simple,...
Emotional
At the 2024 Democratic National Convention, and a party working hard to make “not going back” the message, after the Obamas left the stage, it felt a lot...
Greatness
Tim Walz spoke at the Democratic National Convention last night. The New York Times called it the “biggest speech” of his career. Except come November? It’s...