Now
Ruth Stone
Scanning a list of women poets this morning, I pause at Ruth Stone. I heard her read her work decades
Essays
Personal and creative nonfiction writing
Now
Orb weavers
A week ago, a young man speaking of orb weavers in a deep ditch, hundreds of them, golden-yellow, their webs
Now
All the bears
Early morning, my husband half-waking out of sleep to tell me, “All the bears are dead.”
I’m a bear-lover,
Now
Invisible trail
Who are we when we write?
I’m in the last session of a brief writer’s workshop, a handful
What I Know About Ebola—Part IV
"I have two hands: one for me, one for other people."
— Millie Bobby Brown, actress and UNICEF Goodwill
Eating Chicken in the Villages
"I think dogs . . . are the role model for being alive."
— Gilda Radner, actress/comedian
At every mid-day meal,
What I Know About Ebola — Part III
"Viruses have to live somewhere."
— David Quammen, science writer
For a moment, it will look beautiful, a piece
What I Know About Ebola—Part II
"Fruit bats found throughout Africa are thought to be natural hosts for the Ebola virus. How would they infect
Let Them Be Safe
"The world is a place that is so interconnected that what happens in another part of the world will
Arriving in Liberia
"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
Hummingbird Feet & A Village Girl Near Binkolo
"We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work."
— Kevin Kelly, former editor/publisher
The Luxury of Looking
"The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free."
— Maya Angelou, poet &
What I Know About Ebola — Part I
"My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together."
— Desmond Tutu, human rights
New Year's Day, Alone on Big Lagoon
“everything here
seems to need us”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Paddling in fog this morning, I think, is this what Pablo
Splintered Hearts: The Women of Rural Ecuador—Visit Field Notes
“It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little.” — Sydney Smith, writer
Every Child a Caroline & Other Possibilities
“A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on.”
— Carl Sandburg, poet
When I first meet Caroline
Another Memorial Day Weekend
“Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle
Everything I do is stitched with its color."
The Road to Carate
“If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-British Philosopher
It is two