2015 when we first visited this place. I am now an official resident of Portugal and actually for about a month already. I forgot to m...

Singer/songwriter John Prine died of the corornavirus a few days ago . I never heard of him until now. His debut album was released a ...

Day and night have become a one-sided coin as we begin our fourth week in isolation. It matters less and less which it is. The neighborhood...

" Today is today, the only day there is, this day, today , so live it and love it"! - Juan Carlos It's been open for...

The world was crashing around our ears— or was it the Anthropocene beginning to open like the century plant opens— in its time— ...

Takaya Photograph: Cheryl Alexander/Wild Awake Images Takaya , Canada's eccentric and legendary lone wolf dug wells in summer t...

The three kinds of dawn and dusk This morning during civil dawn ,  the time before the sun peeks over the horizon, as we humans while ...

Got some of the stitches out today. The rest come out next Wednesday. And yes. The biopsy was positive for Myoepithelial carcinoma agai...

It looks like a small city at sea, 17 smoke gray stacks against the flat horizon, and the deep voice of a fog horn taunting me with intr...

I'm typing this single-handed and breakfast with the other. In a few minutes I begin a six hour fast before this afternoon's CAT sca...

In January I submitted material to four different publications . . . Rattle, StepAway Magazine, Agni, and Almanac for the Anthropocene: A Co...

I am coming to terms with the possibility that Trump's so-called "luck" (aka fix) may not run out. As the dim bulb son of a p...

Molly, Swami, and Juan Carlos  M. Lee finally officially became a Portuguese resident today. It shouldn't have taken so long but we ...

The sea is rough this morning, agitated by last night's full moon, the first supermoon of 2020. As I write this, I can hear the wave...

Ghent alter piece, St. Bavo's Cathedral Ghent Last week, after a three-year restoration, the centerpiece of Jan Van Eyck's e...

Submitting to more publications this year than last wasn't a New Year's resolution but the fact that I just did send work to two mor...

Today is Squirrel Appreciation Day!!! And why not? Squirrels are the Johnny Appleseeds of forest regeneration. They bury nuts and seeds e...

San Francisco Bay from the plane Five days ago we began our return slog to Portugal with a one week layover in London, where we are at...

After writing such a grim New Years day and decade post I felt obliged to end by promising good news next. Within a few hours Roy, one of t...

Happy new year and first day of the 2020s. One hundred years ago today, the notorious decade known as the Roaring Twenties began. Ten years...

Happy New Year. That is all.

Foggy morning Crow conversations I try joining in But end up coughing

Sunday, December 22 at 04:19 UTC, is the exact moment of winter solstice this year in the Northern Hemisphere. Adjusted to my local time th...

"Gentle words are worthless if spoken with trepidation." Street art in Rome 2018 " This is a time of connection with ...

I'm writing this from Granada (Spain) and can see the Alhambra (castle complex) from where I'm sitting. Like nearly all the historic...