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Continue reading →: Yesteryear, Ramtha, Unholy Anorexia, Dementia, CzarinaI’m in a neighborhood book club, and we recently read Caro Claire Burke’s Yesteryear. I had decidedly mixed feelings about it, though truth be told I’m not sure whether it’s because, as a nerd who mostly reads sci-fi, I was disappointed to discover that it doesn’t actually involve time travel.…
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Continue reading →: In gratitude: a 2007 Toyota PriusI believe our things have a part in shaping us. I also believe that we shape those things in ways that might well be called their spirits. Our use of things makes them individual exemplars of those things, especially if we have them for a long time. I said goodbye…
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Continue reading →: New essay in Wayfarer: Seeds Planted in Tower Time(Photo credit: Noah Buscher) Twenty years ago I lopped blackberry canes, dug up root balls, yanked out English ivy mats, dug drainage ditches, and planted trees. This was the West Duwamish Greenbelt, over 500 acres of contiguous forest between Seattle’s Duwamish River and the multiple neighborhoods that make up West…
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Continue reading →: Persepolis, Patagonia, apprentices and pickpockets, real magicIt’s been very sad to read about the death of Marjane Satrapi this week, at the age of only 56. She was a remarkable writer and thinker, and for me her most famous work, Persepolis, has some personal resonance. My sixth-grade teacher, whom I adored, was an Iranian refugee following…
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Continue reading →: Well, that’s one way to meet the neighbors
When I revived this blog it was with the idea that I’d regularly make themed posts for different days of the week on things that I’m interested in or curious about. This is less because I think anyone’s waiting breathlessly for whatever I have to say, and more to instill…
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Continue reading →: Affluence without abundance, World Goth Day, Iliad as totenpass, Lushootseed Creation Histories, Juniper BlessingOne of the books I read in preparation for my trips to Namibia, where I spent a week and a half in a Ju/’hoansi community, was James Suzman’s Affluence without Abundance. A week and a half isn’t very long, but it was long enough to appreciate an ethos that places…
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Continue reading →: Claws don’t always mean caninesYou’ll see this assertion a lot in online tracking communities; it’s even part of the spiel on telling the difference between canine and feline tracks at a sanctuary where I volunteer. Claws mean dog; no claws mean cat. First of all, that’s not necessarily true. Cats do have claws, after…
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Continue reading →: Sources of stressI keep missing the news lately. Over the weekend I did something a deep dive into hantavirus, because that’s in the news right now (though already passing out of the eternally churning cycle in favor of Ebola), but I couldn’t tell you about recent or new developments concerning anything else…
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Continue reading →: Deciding to See, Hollow Men, Bezos’s Private Retreat, What Stories Owe Us, Writer Q&AsMy neighborhood book club is reading Deciding to See: The View from Nathan’s Bus. Seattle readers, especially those who ride the bus regularly, are familiar with Nathan Vass, who’s been driving for King County Metro long enough that I first read one of his pieces, “Ode to the 358”, way…
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Continue reading →: Every day I’m trundling, sayeth the porcupineOne of the tricky but rewarding things about tracking is gait analysis. This is the skill of determining how an animal was moving based on tracks left behind. It can be tricky, in part because most of the animals we’re looking at move on four feet, and humans only move…
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