

To bear witness
Published in Ground Zero, October 2021. “We keep threatening to unleash these bombs... Most of us have forgotten what we're capable of."
Oct 13, 2021


Conversation: J. Robert Oppenheimer and Setsuko Thurlow
A “conversation”: J. Robert Oppenheimer's report on nuclear effects and Setsuko Thurlow’s Nobel Peace Prize speech on abolishing nukes
Aug 10, 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.
Jul 22, 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.
May 25, 2021


Black Swan
March 11, 2011: Fukushima nuclear plant systems detected an earthquake. The reactors automatically shut down and emergency diesel...
Mar 19, 2021


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...
Dec 12, 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.
Nov 29, 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 12, 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...
Sep 1, 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.
Aug 6, 2020