Monthly Archives: September 2018

It’s sunrise in Yosemite Valley.  A family of mule deer is grazing just a few feet from my camp chair alongside the Merced River.  Majestic cliffs rise in every direction, the granite still seeming to glow with last night’s full…

The aphorism, “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger,” has come at me four times, from four directions, this week.  I heard someone say it, then I read it in a novel, then I saw a meme joking about it…

God can be a controversial idea.  Amongst many of my friends and family, people I respect and admire, any mention of “God” can prompt a prickly sensitivity or a dismissive eye-roll — like I’m a superstitious nut job utterly out…