- Jul 22, 2021
It starts with me
How I and the other 7 billion of us on the planet now can prevent the worst effects of climate change.
- May 25, 2021
How to just do it
I began musing here about growing older with an untested sense of optimism. I have a fresh appreciation for how hard that is.
- Mar 19, 2021
Black Swan
March 11, 2011: Fukushima nuclear plant systems detected an earthquake. The reactors automatically shut down and emergency diesel...
- Dec 12, 2020
Chewing on aging and ageism
What’s your image of a millennial? A coffee shop patron with an open laptop, budding professional or struggling freelance artist—each...
- Nov 29, 2020
I read the news today, oh boy
2020 reminds me of the extended, dissonant orchestral ascent of Lennon/McCartney’s A Day in the Life.
- Sep 12, 2020
The air is yellow
If we thought the covid-black lives-election trifecta couldn’t get more surreal, we weren’t listening to the climate science warnings
- Sep 1, 2020
The beauty and the crone
Normally, I see myself from the inside looking out. Until I happen on a mirror—I hardly recognize me from the outside looking in. If it...
- Aug 6, 2020
Black Rain 2020
Memorializing the words of Taeko Teramae, age 15 when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. She was 0.5 km from the hypocenter.
- Jul 1, 2020
Finding your voice
"I’ve seen the world tell us with wars and real estate developments and bad politics and odd court decisions that our lives don’t matte
- Apr 8, 2020
Old shoes
My mom used to say that your job as a mother, from the time your child is five, is to prepare them to leave home. I always thought that...