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Who is this blog for?

Not for you, coherent and together people This blog is not for people who have themselves packaged together coherently. I’m sure any of those folks would do a quick eye-roll and press “skip” to something productive or edifying for their put-together lives. It’s for me I may look like a well-balanced person from the outside. […]

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Up from Ashes

Two years ago, forest fires throughout the Pacific Northwest were closing freeways and making air quality miserable. It felt like the natural world that cradled me was becoming a charred skeleton, and I wondered if its bony remains would nurture me again. Near my home, a fire was consuming forests and moss-lined hollows of the […]

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A Leap into Coolness

I was a fifth-wheel in fifth grade, and I knew it. Two years earlier when I returned to Irvington Elementary from the Potter School for sick and frail kids, I felt like an outsider in my home school. But, in spite of the discomfort, I have no good or bad memories of third grade, so […]

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A Grave Tender

Earlier this week, I met a friend as we gathered for a hike. She gave me a little hug and asked, “Doing better?” I thought she was inquiring about my mobility, so I gave an update on stretching suggestions she gave me earlier. Then she asked, “How was the cemetery?” “Did I tell you about […]

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Not Built with Legos!

There is a tidiness to Legos that suits my temperament. I have a “grandchild’s loft” in my home with bricks, train engines, and tracks. Back when the grandkids were young, I’d buy a Lego kit, and we’d follow step-by-step instructions end up with something rewarding that worked. And if a train station got smashed, we […]

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This Site is Struggling!

About a week ago, I discovered that people who had subscribed to this blog were not getting notifications of new posts. Since then, I have been running in a maze and confronting issues I don’t understand well. That lack of understanding hasn’t helped me, but my hosting company and my WordPress products are s-l-o-w-l-y talking […]

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Hey Sister Suzy!

A trip to a psychiatric hospital “Hey! Sister Suzy!” The muffled voice came from behind observation windows at Cedar Hills Psychiatric Hospital during a tour in 1985. Only one person paired “Sister” and “Suzy,” so I instantly knew that it was an 18-year-old who used to be in my congregation. I would have hugged Daniel […]

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