Twelve years later, I can still remember my horror on the morning that I heard. Horror both at what had happened and at what would happen ne...

Hello there. It's been a while. I only intended to be off of my blog and Facebook for 40 days, and that 40 days ended over a week ago....

Photo Credit: Morguefile Welcome to part two of Into the Tidal Zone. Part One can be read here . This is intended for audience partici...

Photo Credit: Morguefile   What I call the tidal zone is the transforming edge of human experience, that place that is neither sea no...

Photo Credit: Morguefile by imelenchon On the subject of religion, words mostly fail to join us in understanding; these words we speak...

Photo by Todd Nickols You are the youngest, and the one to whom childhood still belongs. You are the one with the LEGOs strewn all ove...

Techno music is blasting at Chili's. The clatter of stacked plates on trays erupt from the nearby kitchen. A cacophony of voices; plates...

Photo Credit: Morguefile by mariocom20 Mindfulness. Doesn't that just sound like a good idea? I've had mindfulness on my mind....

Photo Credit: Morguefile by cooee I am going to tell you something that will sound very strange coming from a confessed atheist: I h...

Yesterday, I spent a stupid, astonishing number of hours standing in my kitchen. I stood there, apron-less, so completely present that I did...

The December holiday season is and always has been my favorite time of the year. This is true despite the fact that I often treat whole ...

The arugula was the only thing I had sown this year from my own seed: a child of last year's arugula. I had allowed the plant, past ...

Note: Since I recently had my wisdom teeth out and seem to have developed complications from my surgery, I have been thinking a lot about pa...

Today's post is a response to the GBE2 prompt Breathless . I have lived my life in a wind tunnel, barely able to keep my toes buried i...

I have this recurring dream. In it, I am in a cozy cafe. I am wearing a shirt that says "Spiritual Atheist." Over in the corne...