Mozambique is More than Beaches
March, 2017. I am in Mozambique—Maputo, the capital city to be precise—at a fancy hotel on the beach. Beyond this deck the Indian Ocean laps
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Dispatch from Oregon: 2020 Fires
Originally published September 2020 Tomorrow, Sunday, when this is published, things will be exactly the same. The 24-hour time span between this writing and when
Thanking the Fashion Goddess that We Don’t Have to Wear Girdles Anymore
Originally published October 2018 Enough of travel, writing challenges, random thoughts. I have tried, oh how I have tried, to write and think about anything
Place Names; An Observation of Culture
Originally Published August, 2018 My husband and I begin conversations, as we often do, that travels down many highways, side roads and dirt paths. Last
The Robots Celebrate Christmas
Hey, what are you reading? It’s an invitation. Lemme see. Uh uh. Sounds of paper rattling, a scuffle. You gotta be kidding. It’s from them?
The Brothers and the Ladies
Originally published March 2018 The term “Big Five” is tossed around by camera-safari tourists, but the phrase has more sinister origins. Big game hunters named
October: Carnival of Souls
Originally published October, 2019 In honor, with the rest of the nation, of Horror Month, I decided to write movie reviews. The idea came to
Equinox, Cusp and Frodo
Originally published September 2019 I personally feel that a person’s personality is ruled by their date of birth. Dynamics are in play that we never
The Woman Who Built The House on Flat Land
She bought the property in the Santa Clara Valley in 1884. Almond, apricot, peach and plum orchards covered the flat tidal lands at the bottom
Tarot for Amateurs
Originally published September 2017 Do you have a tarot deck? I have three, but this in no way compares to friends of mine who own
Ragnarök
Originally published September 2020 Last night the husband and I got out the emergency whiskey. This sacred bottle of Washington State’s Woodinville Rye has seen
You Can’t Stop Stepford
Originally posted October 2019 I want to talk about two movies that scream for context. By 1975, through consciousness raising, bra burning, and symbolic jettisoning
Chocolate as a Weapon
Originally published April, 2021 I wanted to find out if chocolate had ever been used to kill someone, outside of adding poison to the drink.