(This is a very elaborate parking lot surface, from KU’s West Campus somewhere.) This is a strange time to be talking about…well, anything. Our world […]
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From Patreon: Amazon Prime will ship anything, but they’re not good about careful packaging.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/35252839 Yesterday was truly shelter in place for me — I only left the house once, for a mile walk to start getting my knee […]
From Patreon: Magic, ten minutes at a time.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/34301410 I do most of my prepping for the week on Sundays. It’s a good time to be in my office on campus, as no […]
From Patreon: Into the lost lands.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/33581671 (This picture was from the October 2018 trip to Iceland, gazing into inaccessible heart of the island. There is a mountain out there, silent, […]
From Patreon: Relativity.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/33335497 When I turned fifty, Mark and Elizabeth threw a huge party. I wore a vintage dress and (as you see) a tiara, and many […]
Five things, as I wait for soup to make itself.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/five-things-as-i-32930251 There aren’t a lot of people I can read the way I read Sjón, with a respect that is awe-adjacent, and without a twinge […]
Rice Lake is always strange days.
I am finding this a harder visit than it has been in other years — though it is never easy. I visit my mother once […]
Yesterday: Reykjavik, day three.
This is my fourth visit to Reykjavik, which changes things. Gone is the astonishment of so beautiful and new a place: what are these mountains? […]
This week gets the angry baby pic.
When I was a baby and small child, Mom had a Minox camera, which took closeups better than almost anything else. There are therefore lots […]