Seven Color Crystal Boll!

When the flower want to oxygen and nutrition, I will help you too much.

Never Be Content

I just got off the phone with my mother. Our hour-long Wednesday morning phone calls are practically a given. God love her. No, really, my mom is awesome. Sometimes it takes a lot of effort to keep her happy, but it is so worth it. On this morning’s phone call, for example, she brought to […]

Thoughts of Ancient One / Kennewick Man

It is frustrating when groups of stereotypically “intelligent” people such as scientists are the ones furthering ignorance, discrimination, and destructive hegemony.

Bring on the snow!

Feeling the tug of a winterscape, my girl and I drove west to Mt. Hood

Farewell November

I detect an expanding category called: Pain I imagine I must be inflicting on my child.

Lessons in Gifting

Thanksgiving is about giving thanks, and every time I lost sight of that during the past week was a time when I became disillusioned, fatigued, angry, or sad.

Stuck in The Dalles

I planned a holiday gift for my mother. It didn’t quite work, but close.

Movin’ Out

I am moving out of my house on Tuesday, November 2. Election Day. I elect to run away from my problems. Again. The House on Morrison Street still has my name on the mortgage, so I’m going on faith that Mark will do his best to try and make the payments. His mother, Rene, will […]

Walk the talk

Of COURSE there’s an irritated person. That’s not why I’m writing this post.

Two Mothers

So that is why we are blessed to have families: because we have no choice but to love them more and wrap our arms around them and pull them close.