At the risk of sounding blind and arrogant towards my own good fortune, I’m fed up. This new height of frustration ballooned last week...

Sage and beloved friend Lindsay says, “I realize we are all just winging it.” Yes. So why do I feel so heavy? Maybe I’m dragging it...

Through North Carolina summers, our dog Lizzie became like a baboon. A West Highland White Terrier, one flea could turn her inside out. ...

I have soft teeth. Root canals, an extraction, cavities; I've had everything done to my teeth. When I was very young, I had dental...

Today was my first time in Griffith Park in months. It is – as ever – a monument to wildness in the city of angels. Not one but two...

My sister Katie says her daughter Lily has my hands. I wish I had Lily’s features, which is to say, I wish I had Katie’s. Mother and...

For everything you have missed, You have gained something else and for everything you gain, you lose something else. - Ralph Waldo...

The manufacturing company that makes our trashcan is called Simple Human. Isn’t that romantic? We invented trash; the credit is ours. ...

I keep seeing feathers on the ground. Am I molting? And a couple of weeks ago I saw a shimmery snake skin lying on the ground. It...

Great-ing. Grating. I’m not sure what great means. It’s a stock-character of language; someone you’ve met a bunch of times and still...