- - Can it be a year since the Japanese tsunami, and the flowering of the Arab Spring? These, as well as horrors in other places, and Bil...

- - Blue hour The tall spruce with wild but silent upcurled arms conducts the cool dark night on a track of wind into morning’s thin...

- - I took this [film] photo in the Scottish highlands in 1980, when I was pregnant with Lesley I heard Representative Gabby Giffords'...

- - The earth's economy Just when I thought the day had nothing left to give, when heat was ladled across the shallow dry plate o...

- - What color is prayer? In December we saw an installation by visual artist Jitish Kallat at The Art Institute of Chicago called Publi...

- - Pearl Square and Everywhere How does light sweep a room, from a tallow candle, and the room remain cold? the worn marble floor...

- Happy Halloween! I love how this day gives us a chance to play with fright and pretend we're someone else (and eat Reese's peanut...

-- Inge and me after walking in the Making Strides event This is my best friend, Inge. She is a breast cancer survivor. Today we walked a...

- Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;  Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world . . .  ~ W. B. Yeats ~ from the poem   "The Se...

- - Cradle your son, Mary. He is gone a while. Sunlight, refrigerated in earth. Stored up, like breath held - until we gasp and catch...

- - Our pockets and shoes are stuffed with snow, our eyes red from reports of ailing loved ones, world news and Michigan wind. Monthly retir...

- - To read more about the Montgomery Bus Boycott, go here . To read more about Rosa Parks, go here , or read her autobiography, Rosa Parks,...