Slow Ride to Healing
Five-year island cut to 2.5. Cut to Squamish, BC where I come to holding a bag full of didn’t plan on that and a sweetheart who has survived a crash. […]
Marathon, or Just One More Walk?
All I need is 32 kms to meet today’s goal. The last thing I want is to walk by the bases after today. When the jets fly over, Chelsey says, […]
Journeying Mercies
Dad was a careful guy. On a road trip, he’d only start the car after he prayed for journeying mercies. Dad stayed debt free until he bought a house once I’d […]
What a Mess can be Made
This turtle came with me on today’s walk. I found it yesterday morning when I took some torpor to the beach for a shakeup. The turtle sprawled there, about three feet […]
Walk South, Bus North
If you’re anything like me, from day to day you don’t know where you’ll wake up. You find yourself in a room where shadows are only bats trick-bombing a street […]
Blogging 101-4: Identify Your Audience
My ideal reader? Sympathetic, encouraging, daring. What I’d like to be. What my mother was, even when I griped about her being critical and self-centred and (worst of all) careful. […]
Who I am and why I’m here: Blogging 101
Before today I blogged by trial and error, the way I learned to ride a bike. Talk about pressure. Now here I am, registered at Blogging U, relieved to have […]
What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You an Ethnobotanist
I’m an ethnobotanist studying screw pines. Sounds as convincing as the lie about writing poetry. Get out look out I tell myself. It’s too easy to go crazy inside your […]
Leaving, Day Four
Thing is, leaving is nothing less than arriving. And vice versa. You leave and there you are, landing somewhere. And you can’t arrive until you leave. Every coming and going […]
Leaving, Day 3.5
Shirataki ryokan again: 5000, sleep only. By now I know it’s too early for check in but I open the door and call out, tadaima (I’m home)! Ii desuka? The innkeeper […]
