I so-o wanted to like the Yellowstone TV series. Great premise about a modern day rancher fighting all the pressures around him. Well, the rancher, played woodenly by Kevin Costner, ends up being richer than Croseus and an absolute shit, to boot. It’s hard to feel sorry for a greedy land baron owning a sizeable chunk of Montana, and I …
The Wee Winged Ones
I don’t think there’s an easier way to connect to another living being than to look out your window and see what birds are there. Even if you’re in a city, you will have the ubiquitous pigeons, house sparrows, starlings, and at night even owls. Just as gazing at a fish tank reduces stress and lowers blood pressure, so does …
Forget the superficial explanation of geomancy as divination; this is geomancy as necessary and critical healing that applies to us each and every one. Thank you Lorian Association and Susan Beal for permission to repost this. February 15, 2019 A LORIAN PRIEST EXPLORES GEOMANCY Susan Beal I learned to dowse nearly forty years ago from a dowser named Herb, whom …
The Trunnel
I walk the dogs on a dirt access road beside the railroad tracks. It’s one of the few places left in this county where my dogs can run free while I wander without worrying about them. A dry creek overgrown with willow and coyote bush separates the road from the tracks. The other side sprawls off into an old California …
Why Women Love Donald Trump
In 1980 I was a gun-toting, chain-smoking, bourbon swilling, diehard Ronald Reagan supporter. I got my whole family to vote for him. But when I got into the polling booth, I pulled the trigger for Jimmy Carter. I was surprised, shocked, and not a little embarrassed, but in my heart of hearts I understood he was the better man. Whether …
Maggie Terry by Sarah Schulman
(Reprinted from The New York Journal of Books) Ex-cop and newly recovered addict Maggie Terry is utterly shattered when we meet her on the first day of her new job as detective at a small law firm. Maggie is desperate to rebuild herself, yet despite 18 months of rehab, she isn’t prepared for life outside a halfway house. Her apartment …
Verge – by Z Egloff
Claire McMinn’s trying to get her life in order. She’s given up drinking. She’s stopped sleeping with her best friend. She’s working hard at college, hoping to get into film school. But she really shouldn’t have slept with her film instructor’s wife. Or made a video of it. Or drunkenly left it in his desk drawer. When Claire’s beloved instructor …
Goodbye old website, hello new
Some of you remember how fun my first website was – desk drawers opened, a raven cawed, the dog woke up, mountain lions ran outside the window, and if you clicked the clock my office would change from day lit to moon lit. Then tablets and smartphones made the site unwieldy and hard to open. The designer updated it, making …