I am my mother’s voice. An unfortunate cocktail of prescription medication put her in a near coma several years ago and has gradually led...

I just made a tomato sandwich. Cherokee purple tomato from our roof garden, my sourdough bread toasted, a basil leave torn over it, salt...

Twenty-five years ago, we were living in Silver Spring, Maryland and thinking about the turn of the millennium. It was a big deal;...

We moved my parents last week. We have been talking about one-story “cottage” on their large property for years where they could escape...

Today I made scones. As some of you know, I started working on a cookbook last year. It is a cookbook/memoir of sorts. The idea is to...

I started teaching today. It is a team-taught class, “Great Issues,” required for all incoming MA students. It has both a lecture...

So…it has come up in my musings before that my dad has dementia. It is vascular dementia, which means it is not all about forgetting...

It seemed innocuous at the start. A former student, now a professor, directing a center at a Budapest university invited me to come and...

I went to yoga this morning. First time in a week. Felt great. As I went to set my intention, though, I had to pause. The last few months...

Last week I flew into DC. I have been there a couple of times since the pandemic but this was a longer and more official trip to host a...

2022 was a year. Not only in global politics but in my life. It was not all bad, but it was intense. I have grown to wonder if this is...

I got a call yesterday from Los Vegas and didn’t answer. I don’t know anyone there. I thought it was likely a robocall of some sort. But...

I took my mom and dad to Santa Fe last weekend. I have met them I Santa Fe many times since I have been an adult. And they used to take...

At some point during COVID, I became an addict. It wasn’t at the beginning but sometime during the fall of 2020 I decided to make my own...

I have challenged myself in August to either hike 10+ miles or write 1,000+ words each day. (See pic from Saturday's hike.) Yesterday, I...

I blog in a number of places about "serious" things; my posts here are intended to be about all the other stuff - hiking, cycling,...