

- 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.


- 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


- Feb 10, 2020
The cause of death is birth
Why do we have this great thirst to live, anyway? Buddhism says, the cause of death is birth.


- Feb 4, 2020
Whining and ice cream
After the second month of chemo, I’m aware of the tired toll; but I circle back to how fortunate I've been.


- Jan 9, 2020
The power of choice
Turning my thoughts toward dying is new. If I have a choice, how do I want that to go?


- Jan 5, 2020
Hair today, gone tomorrow
I’m having one more new experience: baldness.


- Dec 2, 2019
Drafted into the war on cancer
Cancer is war, ‘months of boredom punctuated by moments of terror.’


- Oct 31, 2019
A day for something frightening
On halloween, I met for the first time with my oncologist.