“Glad you had a nice trip home… Sorry you don’t have any beautiful scenery where you live,” I wrote, quite innocently and with unapologetic favoritism for the Pacific Northwest, in an email to a friend […]
Madam Secretary Reflects on International Relations
Well, my friends, it’s March, and I’m sure we all agree that Old Man Winter has way, way overstayed his welcome. I’ve stumbled into bookkeeping, ironically, and my new occupation doesn’t involve traveling to anywhere except […]
Morning
C. AD 30 The eyelashes of morning fan across a blushing sky and Peter laughs with his friends over a catch of fish so bountiful that their net is too heavy to pull into the […]
Shackleton Was An Old Maid Like Me
There was a winter when it was so cold that the air hurt to breath and made the hair in adult noses crackle. Power lines snapped under the weight of accumulated snow, which completely buried […]
