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 […]
