At some point in my mid-teens it donned on me that I was, in fact, a music nerd. It was probably during my freshman year of high school that I was struck by the realization that not everyone took any money they earned directly to the nearest record store and handed it over in exchange […]

At breakfast yesterday morning Tayah suddenly said, “Did you know that a pigs heart is almost like a human heart?”. Now there’s a picture to carry into the day… As it turned out, there was a context for that info. The day before, Tayah, Tirian and Corinne had been helping out at a transitional school […]

I know I chose to live here (came but for friendship, stayed for love…), but it has been a longish stretch of deep-freeze cold. Conversations about the weather these days seem to be almost uniformly negative, and with the exception of my mechanic I haven’t met very many folks that are loving this. And, as […]