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12 Nov: xona

andijan | uzbekistan It’s not the flocked wallpaper or the massive cream and gold Persian rug on the floor nor…

08 Mar: dumb

khiva | uzbekistan On our first trip beyond Andijan viloyati, we travel to Khiva. The tiled minarets in turquoise Majorca…

30 Mar: immerge

na’alehu | hawai’i Late afternoon, after writing, the sun gentle, I drive twenty minutes down an empty winding blacktop, along…

14 Feb: ahimsa

In New Mexico where I now live, cultural and historical inequities of ac- cess to education have been intensified by the pandemic. In the Santa Fe New Mexican, Anthony J. Wallace describes how COVID-19 has challenged the Nav- ajo Nation with death and loss, upheav- al and isolation.

10 May: digs

santa fe/new mexico I’m packing up the guest room where I keep my travel coillection, books and a fold out…

17 Feb: wait 待つ

At the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Sayaka and I lag behind a group of bored middle schoolers who…

01 Jan: 2020

The New Year finds me looking out onto the adobe-walled garden of our townhome on a snowy afternoon. Some of…

26 Nov: walk

For the past two years, it’s been post-surgery, post surgery and post surgery, the last one on November 5, a…

01 Nov: rove

santa fe/new mexico My surgery is scheduled in a week.  I look towards my operation with hope though I won’t…

14 Sep: yoga

santa fe/new mexico I contemplate the circular black standing Lasko fan’s whirring propeller jjjzjzjzjjjng as it vacillates toward my lavender…

02 Sep: reach

I’ve written blogs for almost ten years on different platforms for different reasons.   My first blog Educator to Educator (2010-2012)…

30 Aug: lectio divina 2019

I hobble into Dr. Joe’s office on Robocop crutches and sit on his sofa on a fuzzy white faux sheepskin…

16 Apr: hanami

For my 64th birthday, I planned to host a hanami party though all the plum blossoms on the trees in…

23 Mar: navruz

My town is a monochromatic palette of brown dusty ground, dry arroyos, tumbleweeds, leafless branches and adobe buildings, but the trees…

24 Nov: drift

In the Southwest Reading Room at the Santa Fe Public Library, I sit in a heavy straight-backed Mission Style chair…

09 Sep: spoof

Back to School flyers fall out of Sunday’s New Mexican; catalogs for Santa Fe Community College are stacked in newspaper…

04 May: bone

Teena cradles my head in her hands and checks my tide. She tells me my body knows how to heal…

27 Apr: gut

santa fe/new mexico Boo has always let me go.  Not as in giving me permission, but in understanding I needed…

13 Mar: demo

On a Sunday morning some weeks ago, our Broker tells us she just listed a house; needs a lot of…

24 Feb: cootie

It’s 4:00 a.m., pitchdark outside the vertical living room blinds.  This Saturday morning, I’m apparently the only one up in…

17 Dec: fortune

seoul/korea December finds me in Seoul, oddly listening to the pumped in musac Sleigh Bells, I’m Dreaming of, and other nostaligic songs…

16 May: le mascarat

mont st. michel/france J’aime a me laisser regne lentement ou la serenite des lieux.    -Pierre Jacques The lovely hotelier…

25 Mar: hobli

kengeri hobli/india Every morning on the gravel basketball court near the dorms of this institute where I am posted,  on…

19 Feb: pongal

kengeri hobli/india On the first anniversary of my father’s death, I dream I telephone him. “Hello,” my Dad says on…

28 Dec: chairlift

boulder/colorado It’s just after Christmas and Ann and I are sitting on her leather sofa in her home in Boulder,…

02 Dec: loam

boulder/colorado My sister Ann and I are having a glass of Malbec after the Thanksgiving holiday in Boulder, reminiscing about…

28 Oct: tipolo

philippine islands In the last decade, through professional work in education, I’ve taken the road less traveled on cultural and…

01 Sep: ghat

varanasi/india Three weeks after my father dies, I travel to India on a pre-arranged contract to facilitate an English intensive…

28 Jul: cache

laguna woods/california I stayed with my father during his last six weeks, sleeping on the floor in the sad rental…

03 Jun: crow

laguna hills/california While my Dad sleeps, I do yoga in his lamplit room, background sound the steady labor of his…