It’s an Idaho thing, and I’m so there for it If wishes had wings, sheep would fly. — Robert Jordan It’s spring, and the sheep are on the move Not like it’s all their idea, of course. Sheep and ideas are generally acknowledged to be strangers to one another.  But for almost 140 years, sheep have been making…

And most of it’s not even you Image by Naomi Booth from Pixabay This is why science makes people nervous It keeps coming up with uncomfortable discoveries; things that jolt us out of our assumptions about ourselves and demand that we question the evidence of our senses. Like, the earth is not the center of the universe. That’s an…

My former classmate drank the Kool-Aid — last Here’s my memory of Thanksgiving weekend, 1978 My fiancée and I were staying at my widowed mother’s house in Belmont, California where I’d spent my first 20 years. The family gathering proceeded with its usual overabundance, despite the shadow of a recent event.  Five days earlier, on November…

Darn it. Back when I was young and stupid, I did something terrible I didn’t mean to. But I hurt someone deeply, someone who means the world to me. I’m not going to describe the incident, because that would be telling a story that isn’t really mine to tell, which is what caused the wound…

Outliving bikini season angst This weekend, I was reminded to be grateful for a gift from the aging process. Like many of its gifts, it takes an adjustment in my perspective to appreciate, but once I do, boy howdy.  Get Your Summer Body Here! I spotted these words on the marquee of a med spa. My…

A polite rant about a budget airline Photo by Andrea Piacquadio on Pexels Let me be clear: I am not dumping on all commercial air travel In fact, I’m a fan. Whenever I look out an airplane window and see clouds dancing below me, I marvel. Here I am, sitting in a chair 30,000 feet in…

But there’s an easy answer! Think back to January, 2023 It was a honeymoon idyll for the American patriarchy. A time of Republican triumph.  With the corpse of Roe v Wade barely cold, the side effects of its demise hadn’t had time to reach the mainstream media. No mouthy woman OBGYN had yet popped off about…

Wait — allow me to explain Long enough ago that there’s no point in trying to recall the details, I was watching a PBS British drama set between the wars. In one scene, a gentleman, still dapper in late age, settles into a garden chaise lounge and accepts a cup of tea but declines an…

And now I’m in existential freefall I’m not getting married; my son is His bride is lovely, kind, gracious, intelligent, and a self-made entrepreneur who works like a demon but makes it look easy. For all her drive and achievement, she is easy-going and fun to be with.  She has excellent taste in everything. Naturally,…