My Radical Wish List for Public Education
A school shooting 40 minutes down the road on January 4. Two lives lost, including the shooter’s. Seven more wounded, including the...
old place, new dog
Ten things: 1 There are facts, and there are the stories we tell about the facts. I don’t know who said that. 2 I recently emptied every...
It's my party, and I'll cry if I want to.
Yesterday was my birthday. I’m 49. I wish that, long ago, I had started a log of all the things I learned or realized or noticed since my...
All Boys Aren't Blue, Sex Positivity, & How to Discuss
A couple of weeks ago, Fisher and the rest of the 5th grade split rooms -- boys in one, girls in another -- and learned about puberty. He...
little bright dots like pearls
Yesterday was Fisher’s birthday. He is 11. I pulled out the old camcorder my parents gave his dad and I when Fisher was born. I pulled...
the tree doesn't care what you call it.
If I think too much on it, I get hung up on the weirdness of existing. Not just existing, but existing as a singular solid within a...
13-Lined Ground Squirrel Moon Energy & the Transcontinental Railroad
Photo: The Moon card from Kara Simons and Amy Putney Koenig's Prairie Majesty Oracle Deck. In a conversation three weeks ago between...
