Salut! I am writing this entry from a desk in our hotel room in Brussels, Belgium. Today I am half a world away from the rest of my life. And I'm ready for the break. Already, the wonders of vacation have begun working their magic on me. Yesterday began with…
Eve's Orchard
I wish there were always words available to me for the picking. Like an orchard of broad-limbed trees waiting in my backyard. I could ease out the screen door, relish the creak, watch my dogs run up and down the rows, stirring up dust. Perhaps in this world there are…
Fall Memories
Autumn air reminds me of so many things. The scents mix and mingle and tackle one another, jerking the memories out from their rightful places in my very organized adult mind. Football. The way we played every Thanksgiving. Knowing the exact moment to release the oblong ball so that the…
Windows At Work
Windows At Work From a box, shelved and labeled, I peer out, up. The sky is sill there.…
Live from the Touchstone Roped Series at Pipe Works Gym in Sacramento, California, it's Friday night!
I'm here with Jonathan, who has already chalked up 5300 points on a 5.12a. No pun intended. And if you're asking, "What pun?" I know you've never been to a climbing gym in your life, and so I'll explain. Everywhere I look, the air is filled with floating chalk…
Already wishin' for Autumn
I have been disloyal to Summer. If this were the Catholic version of Confession, I'd be leaning my head against the screen in the darkened box, ashamed. And, when prompted by the Priest of Seasons, I would sigh and begin like this: Forgive me, Friend, for I have sinned against…
Setting An Important Example
For those who have not experienced one of the most popular videos circulating the internet today, let's just say that a new representative of Stupidity has recently come to the forefront. Miss South Carolina, in her competition for the title of Miss Teen USA , babbled all over herself in front…
As in "Merely Married"?
Tonight I'm not feeling wise or witty. Like a sponge I've spent the day absorbing all that was spilled around me. My family's pain, the result of my brother's impending divorce, is excruciating. And I feel it daily. Even though it is not my life, I hurt. My life, the…