The cool bite of an October breeze, the changing, dying and falling of the leaves, foggy mornings, pumpkins, pea coats… I love and admire the signs of Autumn. There is one sign however, that I don’t greet with enthusiasm. As the sun dips down earlier and earlier each day, you won’t find me cheering. It’s …
“Reach out. Touch the leaves. Feel the colors as they burn. In the wild of changing things ask, “what am I meant to learn?” -Morgan Harper Nichols I didn’t wear mascara yesterday. I knew it was useless, because whatever was on my eyes would be falling down my cheeks in black sloppy stains just a …
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 …