Last Saturday, I awoke to a most unwelcome intruder. Wildfire smoke. If you live anywhere in the Western United States, he probably has visited you at some point too. Throughout the week, our air quality has swung back and forth between hazardous and unhealthy and back to hazardous. The sun has looked like the evil …
It’s weird to be writing this post, a post that seemed so far away as I opened my first book of the Summer and envisioned writing about it later on. And yet here we are! August has passed. The nights are growing colder. The sun is setting faster. Summer has come to a close. During …
The coronavirus pandemic, the November election, mask mandates, school closures, nation-wide protests, de-funding the police…. It seems like we barely get our heads above water amid the storms of 2020 and then another wave hits. I have watched as so many struggle against these waves, cursing at them and doing everything in their power to …
I’ve been staring at this screen for what seems like hours, trying to find the words to begin this post. The emptiness of the screen mirrors the emptiness in my heart. Or is it fullness? A heart full of grief, of frustration, of heaviness… This past week has been just that. Heavy. Last Tuesday my …
Yesterday afternoon, Kootenai County, where a majority of my extended family and friends live, mandated masks in public areas to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Immediately, there was opposition and anger and outrage. While I understand both sides of the mask dilemma, I am not here to politicize wearing one, as so many others have …