Yosemite gave me the best birthday gift: a reminder that all the things that keep us small - gnawing anxiety, fear, the general malaise...

This is an essay on the Oscar-winning documentary, Free Solo by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin. I'm not putting in spoiler tags...

Follow this dog's lead. Healing is living. Athletes know this; a hard day in the gym or on the field must be followed by rest, massage,...

I picked up _The Impossible Climb_ by Mark Synnott at the airport as we were leaving Las Vegas after Vegas Acro Cup/World Cup last week....

I AM A SUMMER PERSON. I have to say it in all caps because it is not cool. Cool people love fall (they're cool, get it? A punny joke only...

This was one of the best speeches I've heard in a long, long time. You heard that story structure built in - story of me, story of us,...

Updated 1/10/2018 Whose stories get told depends on a lot of things, not the least of which is who decides to speak up and tell their...

I am so surprised at how much I liked Thor. (And *completely* blown away by how much I loved "Logan," but that's for another review.)...

On the Saturday of opening weekend, we went to see Wonder Woman. My heart was unexpectedly full at seeing row after diverse row of...

"…we have people unable to touch other people, unable to love other people. This is a song about the inability to communicate."~Paul...

Ok all you astronomers and fans out there, let me say off the bat that I have no idea what's going on with Tabetha Boyajian's Star. But...

The leaders who will take us into the next era of our democracy are the ones who are bold enough to lead with love. Not with body slams,...

I was a fan of 'Mad Men.' I wouldn't say I was raving over it, but I appreciated how it depicted an era and conveyed a certain...

Facebook, aka The Most Inefficient Way To Get News, can take up a LOT of time, especially if you're trying to find the top stories on a...

A parking lot, and cars in the lot Minivans and trucks, families and farmhands. This is where I am, a suburb closing in on farmland a...

This is the cheeriest thing ever so I have to share. A few days of the week, I'm able to pick up the kids after school. It's sometimes...

Every year I feel like a wanna-be Catholic because I'm annoyed at the lack of focus in the Protestant tradition on what the story is...

So, how about that speech. I heard a Republican caller on CSPAN say that she loved it! He said all the great things! I saw a lot of...

I haven't posted in awhile, or posted regularly. There are lots of reasons for it, but there's one that stands out: Fear. (Well, fear and...

In this New York Times op-ed, Dahlia Lithwick and David S. Cohen rightly point out that audacity is the basis of Republicans wins. Being...