(February 25, 2021)
Wednesday afternoon was their scheduled weekly supervised visit with their mom; every week they'd come into the same room with the same books and toys, while I sat on an...
(February 18, 2021)
Our life is frittered away by detail ... Simplify, simplify. — Henry David Thoreau I lived in my first tiny house — so to speak — in the mid-1980s when...
(December 10, 2020)
When I was around 10 years old, my mother decided we should have swimming lessons. It was a good decision; in 1992, the Mattole River was still deep and swift...
(October 15, 2020)
I met Gerrianne through a picture taken on a camera loaned to someone for a birthday party in the summer of 2015. That fall I looked over a pot of...
(September 3, 2020)
"Are you prepared to kill a man tonight?" "No." "Are you prepared to die tonight?" "No." "Then put the gun away and we will decide whether we call the police...
(August 20, 2020)
It's midnight and I'm still an hour away for a 12:30 a.m. flight booked just hours before from my home, also hours and worlds away. Another panicked decision, another chance...
