HOW WE ARE.

I find myself thinking about my childhood more than usual. In a time when El Granada, California was encased in fog almost daily, we...

Thank you for asking. Feeling a little disoriented, I guess, and in no small part because I learned about a new genre of social media...

Dear Rita, You said, “How are you?” Well I’ve to tell you a whole bunch of stuff I haven’t had a chance to tell you before. First of all,...

(listen here, or read below) HOW I AM DOING First, I am no longer thinking The world needs to organize Itself to my taste, which arranges...

You sound so calm, a friend said last week during a phone call. Is it the Prozac? She asked, hopefully, as though the solace we all seek...

The Solaris Phase Amiga, mira. I’ve been using a 10-dollar black Target folding chair to take my calls. My back is arched and neck...

Thanks for asking how I am, Lesley, and for pointing me to this great site. Here in the San Francisco Bay Area, our shelter-in-place...

At first, I spent many hours befuddled, pondering what the hell was going on. Mostly, I was attempting to imagine a post-Covid19 world....

Thanks for asking – calm and tranquil right now, though ask me again in 15 minutes, 40 minutes, a year. The spring birds are asserting...

I woke up this morning before dawn to eat something. It’s the last week of Ramadan. The practice is daily—each dawn you wake and eat and...

My flight to London would have been in 10 days. In a parallel, non-COVID-19 universe, I am packing my bags and going on practice hikes...

I’m bored. I know it is a luxury to even say that. If I were sick, caring for someone sick, working right now in a hospital or nursing...

I miss hitting people. In the weeks before the novel Corona virus shut everything down, I was preparing for a fight—a three-round...

Instead of asking how are you I think we should be asking Howie, are you…. This way we can be Howie, because let’s face it, it can be a...

I close the laptop for the night reluctant, but knowing my brain is roasted and curl up next to my cats. They gave up on me and went to...

For the most part busy and healthy. Working as an essential employee at a government job I definitely got my fair share of...

Starlings Four times in a two-week period, in print and on TV, I’ve been regaled with the story of Shakespeare’s starlings. As it’s told,...

Te Quiero, Mamá Today I cried over my mother for the first time in more than four decades. My mother lives in a nursing home, marooned in...