This is the first part of a series about my lived experience of waking up after a 28-year identity break. I feel like I am finally home, and I am grateful for my experience, even if it seems like a hell. my life has been irrevocably changed for the better....

I have so many letters for you I’ve never sent … thoughts I don’t know how to communicate … wasted so many moments between us until there’s more distance than not … and now that I’m awakening I can see so clearly what I’ve done and how I squandered your...

This is a very personal space of growth, healing, learning, sharing, and cobbling together a new path forward after spending decades as a Pettigrew-like sychophant. Mentally and emotionally abusive to those I love the most — including my partner, with whom I am deeply in love. In order for me...

Dearest Asha, You know I love you. I tell you all the time. Too much, probably. You’re so easy to love. Charming and kind. Courageous. Brilliant wit and soulful heart. A beautiful voice. Dazzling smile with galaxy eyes. For all the reasons that anyone else who meets you will love...

I’m living entangled between two dreams. One is the life I have been living for 26 years. The other is the life I want to be living from now on. I feel squeezed and stretched by the separation of these two very different ways of living. The emotional pain of...

Land use and rights of use is going to become an even bigger issue than it is now. The gamut of land-use perspectives runs from the “we are stewards” to “only we have control over what happens on this parcel”. Frequently these two extremes clash, for example, in the wind...

I originally wrote this post on January 29th as a journal response to the excerpted quote from “Incomplete Nature” by Terrence W. Deacon. The exercise was to do a hermeneutic analysis of a particular phrase or idea that caught our attention. I love the idea of combining two, ultimately juxtaposed...